Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
TIMOTHY KELLERPrayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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