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Prayer turns theology into experience.

Timothy Keller

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Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.
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We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.
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There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.
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Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.
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Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.
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Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
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Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.
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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 will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
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You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.
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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.
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The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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.
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The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.
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