Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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 basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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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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.
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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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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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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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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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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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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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