Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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