The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
TIMOTHY KELLERLove is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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 a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for 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 basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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