The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
TIMOTHY KELLERLegalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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 world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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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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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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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