There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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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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As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
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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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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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