Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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 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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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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