The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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