When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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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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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 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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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