The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
TIMOTHY KELLEREvery single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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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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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 Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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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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