It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
TIMOTHY KELLERGod 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.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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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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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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The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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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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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
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Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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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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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
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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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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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