It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
TIMOTHY KELLERGenerosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
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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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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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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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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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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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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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