If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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God 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.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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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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