Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
TIMOTHY KELLERLove is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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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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