Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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