Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
TIMOTHY KELLERTolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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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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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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