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 KELLERIt is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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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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To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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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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Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.
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The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
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God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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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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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 cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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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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