There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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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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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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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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