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 KELLERThe 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
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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 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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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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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 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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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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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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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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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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