Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
TIMOTHY KELLERChristians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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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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Since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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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 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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Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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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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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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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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