Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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