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Mean Quotes by Timothy Keller
- To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there…
- Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we always wanted but…
- Easter means that Christmas worked.
- Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.
- In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a…
- Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or…
- Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.
- The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.
- When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
- In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
- 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…
- Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.
- The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.
- ...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood…
- When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more…
- Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him…
- A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can…
- Within this Christian vision of marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse…
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams