We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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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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