Tim Keller Short Quotes

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Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

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A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

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We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

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Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

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The gospel is not just the ABCs but the A-to-Z of the Christian life.

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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.

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The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

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I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

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Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

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Suffering is unbearable if you aren't certain that God is for you and with you.

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Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life.

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Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.

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Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.

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Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself

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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

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The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

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The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.

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God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

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There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption.

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To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

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We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.

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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.

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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

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The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.

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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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