Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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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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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.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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