If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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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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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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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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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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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 Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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