God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
TIMOTHY KELLERChristians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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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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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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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