Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
TIMOTHY KELLERJesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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