Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer. Timothy Keller More Quotes by Timothy Keller More Quotes From Timothy Keller The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less. Timothy Keller confidence christian jesus 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. Timothy Keller assurance christian heart To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process. Timothy Keller instant slavery process No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great. Timothy Keller trials facts people Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine. Timothy Keller karma god meaningful If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire. Timothy Keller praying desire giving Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace Timothy Keller successful mistake jesus When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'. Timothy Keller life-is worry way Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough. Timothy Keller christian god bible God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows Timothy Keller religious prayer god Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints. Timothy Keller friends healthy wisdom God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast. Timothy Keller one-day darkness self We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry Timothy Keller ministry strong jesus A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life. Timothy Keller absence might jesus To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life. Timothy Keller degrees beautiful sex You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope. Timothy Keller dare accepted imagine If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them. Timothy Keller sacrifice christian heart Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are! This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation? Timothy Keller shoes motivation christian At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him. Timothy Keller christian heart reality Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word. Timothy Keller suffering looks jesus
