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Timothy Keller

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

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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?

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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.

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