The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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