All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
TIMOTHY KELLERGod became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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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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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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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