Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
TIMOTHY KELLERWorry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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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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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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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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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree 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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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