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.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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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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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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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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