You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
TIMOTHY KELLERWhen we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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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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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
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The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
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In the original language, ‘Fear the Lord’ doesn’t mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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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 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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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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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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