The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
TIMOTHY KELLER…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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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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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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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