If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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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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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 God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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…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 gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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