Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
TIMOTHY KELLERMoney isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
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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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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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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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How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
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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 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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