Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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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How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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