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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

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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…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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
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No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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