Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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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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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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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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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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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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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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