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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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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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…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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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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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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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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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