No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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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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Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
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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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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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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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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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What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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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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To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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