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 KELLERJesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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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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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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