If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
TIMOTHY KELLERTrust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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