The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
TIMOTHY KELLERThe only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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