When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
TIMOTHY KELLERPrayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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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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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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