The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
TIMOTHY KELLERMen, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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 don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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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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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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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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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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 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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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