The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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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 were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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