Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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