Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
TIMOTHY KELLERTolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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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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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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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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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are committed and all that is needed is for others to become as good as we are!
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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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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