The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
TIMOTHY KELLERThink like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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 Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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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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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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