The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
TIMOTHY KELLERChristianity 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
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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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 infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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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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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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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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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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