When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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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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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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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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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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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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