It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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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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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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We 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.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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