To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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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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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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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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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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