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Prayer 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.

Timothy Keller

Prayer 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.
TIMOTHY KELLER

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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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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 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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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