If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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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