If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to 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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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