Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
TIMOTHY KELLERJesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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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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There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
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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 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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You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
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Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.
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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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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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Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
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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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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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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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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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