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Own Quotes by Timothy Keller
- Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
- Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways…
- 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…
- Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each…
- A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded…
- It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else…
- The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.
- Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.
- The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with…
- If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus…
- Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.
- A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent…
- When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two…
- Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him…
- A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov