We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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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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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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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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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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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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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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