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 KELLERThe Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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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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…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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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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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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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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