Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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…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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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