If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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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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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 prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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The 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…
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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