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 KELLERPrayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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 anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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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.
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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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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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