It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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…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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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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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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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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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So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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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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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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