Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
TIMOTHY KELLERMoney isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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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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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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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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You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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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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