"To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life."
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Timothy Keller quotes (page 9 of 30)
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"Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength."
"God's reckless grace is our greatest hope."
"God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver."
"There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace."
"Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty."
"If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said."
"To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God."
"Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith."
"Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were."
"How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior."
"Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life."
"When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'."
"We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin."
"The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you."
"A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. 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."
"[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways."
"To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process."
"Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'."
"The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that."