To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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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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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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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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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 you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
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