How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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