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“And that is precisely what Christianity is about. This world is like a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumour going around that some of us are some day going to come to life.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.”
― Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.”
― Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“You may speak a great deal about what a “blessing” your faith is and how you “just really love the Lord,” but if you are prayerless—is that really true?”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“Prayer is “Gods breath in man returning to his birth.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“there is something in us from God that knows we are not alone in the universe, and that we were not meant to go it alone. Prayer is a natural human instinct.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“prayerful dependence on the grace of Jesus is our only refuge from our own sin.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“Prayer changes us.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“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.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“The only time in all the gospels that Jesus Christ prays to God and doesn’t call him Father is on the cross, when he says, “My God, my God, why have you forgotten me? Why have you forsaken me?” Jesus lost his relationship with the Father so that we could have a relationship with God as father. Jesus was forgotten so that we could be remembered forever—from everlasting to everlasting. Jesus Christ bore all the eternal punishment that our sins deserve. That is the cost of prayer. Jesus paid the price so God could be our father.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“Prayer turns theology into experience.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“Read and listen to one thinker and you become a clone; Read two and you become confused; Read ten and you get your own voice; Read a hundred and you start to become wise.”
― Tim Keller