Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
TIMOTHY KELLERLove without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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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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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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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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