Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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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.
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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 were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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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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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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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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