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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

Timothy Keller

The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Comfort Grief Jesus Power Recognition Sacrifice Success Value World
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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Become God Happiness Happy Mean Most Tend Thing
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Destroy Fire God Himself Refine Suffering Walk
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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Affirm Denial Flaw Giving Keep Love Marriage Sentimentality Support Truth
Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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Call People Promise Something Success Think Time
When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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Absolute Good Hatred Love People People Become Political Racism Society Tendency Turn
…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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Essence Gospel Humility Less More Myself Religious Think
The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Enter Gospel Kingdom Live Only Way
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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Believe Christ Dare Flawed Gospel Jesus Ourselves Sinful
If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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Desire Feel God Pray
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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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Infallible Integrity Jesus Life Prayer Private Spiritual Test
The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Better Circumstance Gospel Life Promise
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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Change Done Jesus Key Order Question
Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Answer Came Come Jesus Life Question Tell

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