There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
TIMOTHY KELLERMen, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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We 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.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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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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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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