Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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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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This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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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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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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