Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
TIMOTHY KELLERThink like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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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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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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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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…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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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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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
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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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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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