If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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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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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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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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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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