Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good 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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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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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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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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