There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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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
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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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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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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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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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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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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