If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLERNo, 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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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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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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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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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 basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
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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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