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“The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Prayer #Purpose #Mold
“Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Brother #Cities #World
“We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Grace #Succeed #Needs
“I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'”
-- Timothy Keller

#Circles #Trying #Venture
“Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Jesus #Answers
“...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Humility #Thinking #Essence
“The basic premise of religionâ€“ that if you live a good life, things will go well for youâ€“ 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.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Jesus #Good Life #Rejection
“If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Heart #Identity #Christ
“The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.”
-- Timothy Keller

#People #Community #Church
“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?”
-- Timothy Keller

#Son #Giving #Looks
“Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Fire #Suffering #Walks
“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”
-- Timothy Keller

#Pain #Suffering #Despair
“In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Beautiful #Christianity
“If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Justice #Church #Doe
“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.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Thinking #People #Calling
“If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Grace #Want
“The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Jesus #World #Purpose
“I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesusâ€™ love, not Jesusâ€™ love by my circumstances.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Jesus #Judging #Jesus Love
“You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Christian #Band #Believer
“Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Heaven
“It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”
-- Timothy Keller
“Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Jesus #Moments
“Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Mean #Promise #Path
“While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Lying #Communication #Responsibility
“Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Choices #Worship
“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.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Love #Marriage #Giving
“The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Inspirational #Facts #Absence
“Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, youâ€™ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Jesus #Promise #Suffering
“Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?”
-- Timothy Keller

#Jesus #Realizing #Christ
“All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.”
-- Timothy Keller

#Heart #Understanding #Christ

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