Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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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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