The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
TIMOTHY KELLERChristians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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