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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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