Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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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 only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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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 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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