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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThis 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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