Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
TIMOTHY KELLEREvery single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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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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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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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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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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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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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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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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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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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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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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