When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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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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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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