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
TIMOTHY KELLERIf you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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 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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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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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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