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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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 gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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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 gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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