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Timothy Keller

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We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
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Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'.
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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. God 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.
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Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
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The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
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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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Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.
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No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.
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Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.
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In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.
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If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.
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Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.
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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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There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
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Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.
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While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
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Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.
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Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.
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