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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

Timothy Keller

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God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.
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The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
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Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
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A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.
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One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.
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Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
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When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.
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Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
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Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.
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Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.
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Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.
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