If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
TIMOTHY KELLERThere is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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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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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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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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?
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