“What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse's holiness.” — timothy keller Copy Share Image
Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that Paul says you can’t understand marriage without looking at the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“if you do nothing but urge people to “look out for number one,” you will be setting them up for future failure… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The reason that marriage is so painful and yet wonderful is because it is a reflection of the gospel, which is painful… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When you feel great delight in someone, meeting their needs and getting their gratitude and affection in return is extremely rewarding to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Within this Christian vision of marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“the Bible’s solution to a bad marriage is a reorientation to the radical, spousal love of Christ communicated in the gospel. “You… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and flaws, yet commits… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“...We must say to ourselves something like this: 'Well, when Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think "I am giving… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don't really want it at all, though perhaps they can't admit… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Sociologists argue that in contemporary Western society the marketplace has become so dominant that the consumer model increasingly characterizes most relationships that… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When God brought the first man his spouse, he brought him not just a lover but the friend his heart had been… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“In sharp contrast with our culture, the Bible teaches that the essence of marriage is a sacrificial commitment to the good of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“If you marry someone expecting them to be like a god, it is only inevitable that they will disappoint you. It's not… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The reason that marriage is so painful and yet wonderful is because it is a reflection of the gospel, which is painful… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Evangelism will come organically in friendship if we don’t let our pride, fears, and pessimism cause us to hide our faith and heart.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The coming of the messianic King occurs in two stages. At his first coming, he saved us from the penalty of sin and gave… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“24 A few pages later, Delbanco writes the following: [Alexis de] Tocqueville’s detection of a “strange melancholy in the midst of abundance” has a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“of temple, presence, and sacrifice; of covenant and faithfulness; of kingdom and victory. When we seek to communicate the gospel to a particular culture,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Finally, you are ready to launch your church. Begin by developing action steps and goals that can be used as benchmarks to track your… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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