If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuccess and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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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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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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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 world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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