Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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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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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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