Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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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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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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