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
TIMOTHY KELLERWhat you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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