If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
Timothy J. KellerTags: christianity faith heart motivation
Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'ask, seek, knock' in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God's grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities.
Timothy J. KellerTags: christianity god faith grace repentance
Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself.
Timothy J. KellerIf we get our very identity, our sense of worth, from our political position, then politics is not really about, it is about US. Through our cause we are getting a self, our worth. That means we MUST despise and demonize the opposition. If we get our identity from our ethnicity or socioeconomic status, then we HAVE to feel superior to those of other classes and races. If you are profoundly proud of being an open-minded, tolerant soul, you will be extremely indignant toward people you think are bigots. If you are a very moral person, you will feel superior to people you think are licentious. And so on.
Timothy J. KellerTags: politics morality identity self-worth tolerance status
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