When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
TIMOTHY KELLERAfter creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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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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The 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
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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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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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 infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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