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Other Quotes by Timothy Keller
- While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the…
- Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by…
- Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
- A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially.…
- The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.
- It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else…
- Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'.
- 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…
- Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the…
- 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…
- 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 have…
- If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to…
- I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture…
- Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just…
- While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour