You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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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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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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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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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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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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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
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Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
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When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
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