The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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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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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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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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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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