"...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the……" — Timothy Keller
"...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 that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can "just forgive" the perpetrator.... But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly."
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420 Quotes by Timothy Keller
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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver..
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Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that…
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Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are…
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Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your…
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the…
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The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
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There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people…
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and…
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If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community…
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Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All…
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Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives…
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
— Dave Barry
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of…
— Theodor Adorno
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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad…
— Jo Brand
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I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff…
— Luke Bryan
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so…
— Pearl S. Buck
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
— Pearl S. Buck
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
— Michael Chabon
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be…
— Eric Clapton
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