If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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