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.
TIMOTHY KELLERFaith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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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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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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The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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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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When 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.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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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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