The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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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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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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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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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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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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