If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLEROur character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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