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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThere are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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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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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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