Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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The 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.
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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 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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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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