Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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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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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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 are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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