Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
TIMOTHY KELLEREvery single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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