Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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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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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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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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