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.
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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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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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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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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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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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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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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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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