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.
TIMOTHY KELLERMen, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
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It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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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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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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