“The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule – it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory.”
— Timothy Keller
“Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.”
“Jesus says, “I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison””
“Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.”
“If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn’t come through – You only trusted God to meet your agenda.”
“Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.”
“To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.”
“Don’t obey God to get things, obey God to get God.”
“The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.”
“Jesus’s miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.”
“Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.”
“Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.”
“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.”
“Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.”
“To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.”
“If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.”
“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said.”
“Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.”
“Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.”
“The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.”
“The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.”
“The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.”
“The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.”
“Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He’s either all of your righteousness or none.”
“Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .”
“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.”
“Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.”
“To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God.”
“What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.”
“If we can’t “love the sinner; hate the sin” then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.”
“God’s grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver...”
“There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.”
“Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to ‘reorder’ our loves is to love God supremely.”
“How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?”
“I am God and I am coming to find you.”
“The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.”
“The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?””
“Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.”
“The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.”
“Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.”
“We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.”
“Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.”
“If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.”
“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.”
“The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.”
“It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.”
“Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.”
“If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.”
“The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.”
“The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.”
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