If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Prayer 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.
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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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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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