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Things Quotes by Timothy Keller
- Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.
- The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate…
- The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s…
- We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it’s not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that…
- This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory…
- While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was…
- The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.
- If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.
- Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, can coexist only in God.
- The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with…
- Don't obey God to get things, obey God to get God.
- Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service,…
- As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.
- 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…
- The problem with the world is it blames problems on things besides sin and identifies salvation on things besides God.
- Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of…
- Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
More Things Quotes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- If I were an actor I could be someone, someone who'd always know the right things to say. But as soon as… — Superman
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle