…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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThink like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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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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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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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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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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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 Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.
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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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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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