Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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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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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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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…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”
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