If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
TIMOTHY KELLERWorry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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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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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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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