Timothy Keller Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Identity, Christ

• If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

  Timothy Keller

  Idols, Identity, Meaning Of Life

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.12, Penguin

• Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

  Timothy Keller

  Identity, Records, Good Person

• The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

• Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

  Timothy Keller

  Powerful, Passion, Thinking

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.164, Penguin

• Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

  Timothy Keller

  Identity, Sin, Our Relationship

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.163, Penguin

• The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Real, Identity

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.28, Penguin

• Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.

  Timothy Keller

  Accomplishment, Identity, Kind

• Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.

  Timothy Keller

  Motivation, Heart, Self

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