If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
TIMOTHY KELLERNo, 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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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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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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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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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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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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