…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.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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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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It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
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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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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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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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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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