You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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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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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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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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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created 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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