Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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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 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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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