How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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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 Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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 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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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