We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
TIMOTHY KELLERGod invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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…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.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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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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