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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.

Timothy Keller

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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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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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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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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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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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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