Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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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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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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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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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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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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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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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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