If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
TIMOTHY KELLERChristians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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