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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

Timothy Keller

You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Attach Comit Faith Faithful Love
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Comfort Grief Jesus Power Recognition Sacrifice Success Value World
Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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Emotion Every Prayer Processed Single
Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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Actually Christian Courage Deep Experience Face Hope Pain Provide Reason Resources Suffer
God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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Back Become Believe Body Breakable Country Expert God People Someone Suffer
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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Anyone Deed Humanity Less Myself Nothing Superior Swagger Think Undermine
We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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Careful Elevate Feel Judge Judging Moral Preference Standard Superior
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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Afraid Anxious Give God Look Need Say Son
It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Forgive Her Him Impossible Someone Superior
Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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Bride Good Groom Jesus Men Unless
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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Become Believe Hurt Real Relationship Vulnerable
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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All Cause God Human Problem Separation Symptom Ultimate
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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Accident Calling Create Emerge Gift Look Way
The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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Enter Gospel Kingdom Live Only Way
When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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Absolute Good Hatred Love People People Become Political Racism Society Tendency Turn
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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Away Get Jesus Reason Rolled Stop Tomb

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