The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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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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…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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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