Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
TIMOTHY KELLERPrayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
TIMOTHY KELLERWe have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
TIMOTHY KELLERJesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
TIMOTHY KELLERChristianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
TIMOTHY KELLERLegalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
TIMOTHY KELLERSince they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
TIMOTHY KELLERThink like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
TIMOTHY KELLERNo, 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.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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