The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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