…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.
TIMOTHY KELLERThere is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
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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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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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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 Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good 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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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
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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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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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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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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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