Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
TIMOTHY KELLERJesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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