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.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuccess and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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 Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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