Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
TIMOTHY KELLERNo one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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.
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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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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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 world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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