In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
TIMOTHY KELLERA life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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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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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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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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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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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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