Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“As in the Old Testament, God’s response to prayer and persecution is the sending of the Spirit to revive individuals and churches.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has.… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“we must not miss the fact that Paul directly tells a local congregation to adapt its worship because nonbelievers will be present.… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“LEAD PEOPLE TO COMMITMENT We have seen that nonbelievers in worship actually “close with Christ” in two basic ways: some may come… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Celebrate deeds of mercy and justice. We live in a time when public esteem of the church is plummeting. For many outsiders… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“a. Seek to worship and preach in the vernacular. It is impossible to overstate how insular and subcultural our preaching can become.… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Let’s think back for a moment to the boring sermon. Sometimes the sermon we hear is boring because it went on for… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“THE MEANS OF GOSPEL RENEWAL While the ultimate source of a revival is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit ordinarily uses several “instrumental,”… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Present the sacraments so as to make the gospel clear. Baptism, and especially adult baptism, should be given great significance in evangelistic… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“So the novelist David Foster Wallace, not long before his suicide, spoke these words to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College:… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“DEVOTION TO GOD’S KINGDOM OVER SELF OR TRIBE ENABLES SACRIFICE People in a church with movement dynamics put the vision ahead of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay? — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Evangelism will come organically in friendship if we don’t let our pride, fears, and pessimism cause us to hide our faith and heart.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The coming of the messianic King occurs in two stages. At his first coming, he saved us from the penalty of sin and gave… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“24 A few pages later, Delbanco writes the following: [Alexis de] Tocqueville’s detection of a “strange melancholy in the midst of abundance” has a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“of temple, presence, and sacrifice; of covenant and faithfulness; of kingdom and victory. When we seek to communicate the gospel to a particular culture,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Finally, you are ready to launch your church. Begin by developing action steps and goals that can be used as benchmarks to track your… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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