Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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