If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLERSuffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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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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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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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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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?
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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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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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