If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
TIMOTHY KELLERPride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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