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| aeb14ca | El espera que no disfracemos esas emociones con distracciones que prometen alivio, pero que nunca cumplen. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 397619e | The gospel does not say, "the good are in and the bad are out," nor "the open-minded are in and the judgmental are out." The gospel says the humble are in and the proud are out. The gospel says the people who know they're not better, not more open-minded, not more moral than anyone else, are in, and the people who think they're on the right side of the divide are most in danger." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| a16eb8e | Contrary to popular opinion, then, Christianity is not a Western religion that destroys local cultures. Rather, Christianity has taken more culturally diverse forms than other faiths.25 It has deep layers of insight from the Hebrew, Greek, and European cultures, and over the next hundred years will be further shaped by Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Christianity may become the most truly "catholic vision of the world,"26 having opened its.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| c4f30f4 | Freedom, then, is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 82f1a27 | To become wise is to become a disciplined person, given not to impulsiveness but to self-examination, to circumspection, and to clear thinking. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 39933fe | God is the only person from whom you can hide nothing. Before him you will unavoidably come to see yourself in a new, unique light. Prayer, therefore, leads to a self-knowledge that is impossible to achieve any other way. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| beeacfc | Sin can only grow in the soil of self-pity and a feeling of "owed-ness." I'm not getting a fair shake! I'm not getting my needs met! I've had a hard life! God owes me; people owe me; I owe me! That's the heart attitude of "owed-ness" or entitlement. But," | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 04a81a9 | is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances. It is certain that they lived in the midst of many dangers and hardships. They faced persecution, death from disease, oppression by powerful forces, and separation from loved ones. Their existence was far less secure than ours is today. Yet in these prayers you see not one petition for a better emperor, for protect.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| f18b13a | I have always known a thing before it happens. | Amy Tan | ||
| d09e2a7 | It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate. | Amy Tan | ||
| bc599ff | Why are you attracted only to Chinese nonsense? | Amy Tan | ||
| 875aacb | When Lovelace speaks of warming oneself "at the fire of God's love," he is describing what it means to meditate on the righteousness we have in Christ through his sacrificial death. If we don't meditate on that until our hearts are hot with assurance, we will "steal love and self-acceptance" from worldly achievements, beauty, and status." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 821987d | It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and that is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness. . . . We are not saved by the love we exercise, but by the love we trust.275 When Lovelace speaks of warming oneself "at the fire of God's l.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 00d5cc9 | ANNOYANCE. Conflict (Hebrew madon) in Proverbs does not refer to principled disagreements or respectful arguments. It is something God hates (6: 19) and at the heart of conflict is annoyance, a word that means contempt and disdain between people. Everything said in conflict is to belittle rather than convince. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 257fcc0 | Not Christians. We don't expect things in life to "work for good" of their own accord. When we find things working out beneficially for us, it is all of God, all of grace, all of him. When things work out, Christians never say: Of course--that's as it should be! Rather, they praise God for it." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 94c4232 | But second, this truth removes general fear and anxiety when life "goes wrong." We know it hasn't gone wrong at all! If God "works" in "all things," it means his plan includes what we would call "little" or "senseless" things. Ultimately, there are no accidents." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 05ebb6f | The family is no longer what Christopher Lasch once called a "haven in a heartless world," a counterbalance to the dog-eat-dog areas of life.58 Instead, the family has become the nursery where the craving for success is first cultivated." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 852173c | Thomas Goodwin, a seventeenth-century Puritan pastor, wrote that one day he saw a father and son walking along the street. Suddenly the father swept the son up into his arms and hugged him and kissed him and told the boy he loved him--and then after a minute he put the boy back down. Was the little boy more a son in the father's arms than he was down on the street? Objectively and legally, there was no difference, but subjectively and exper.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 23cbce4 | malcontents praised least. The good critics found | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 07bded3 | if we live for and love any thing more than God himself, we are trapped. They become things we have to have, so we "run," exhausted, after them." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 07e5a2d | Anything that is functionally more important to you than God is an idol. Anything you love more than God--even a good thing like a spouse or child or social cause--is a false god. Because we love them too much, we are wracked with uncontrollable fears and anger when they are threatened and inconsolable despair when we lose them. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 64611e9 | And in no way is the gospel story sentimental or escapist. Indeed, the gospel takes evil and loss with utmost seriousness, because it says that we cannot save ourselves. Nothing short of the death of the very Son of God can save us. But the "happy ending" of the historical resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross. It is so great that those who believe it can henceforth fully face the depth of the sorrow a.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| c9d133a | If we believe the great God of the universe really loves us, it should make us emotionally unshakable in the face of criticism, suffering, and death. In | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 36b8508 | The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for us. We...put ourselves where only God deserves to be; God...puts himself where we deserve to be.8 | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 8f94e55 | J. R. R. Tolkien's famous essay, "On Fairy-Stories," in Tree and Leaf (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), pp. 1-82. The consolation . . . the joy of the happy ending . . . the sudden joyous 'turn' . . . this joy which . . . stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially 'escapist' nor 'fugitive.' . . . It is a sudden and miraculous grace: never to be counted on to recur. It does not deny the existence of dyscatastrophe, of sorrow and f.. | Timothy Keller | ||
| 09f9001 | Sin shrugs at God. Its essence is failing to believe not that he exists but that he matters. This attitude is deadly. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 0af5038 | Lord, I will obey you simply because you are worthy of it and it is my duty. But don't let my service to you remain at that level. Show me your beauty--attract my heart, capture my imagination, so that I find joyful pleasure in serving you. Amen. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 0ddf5f0 | The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 4871de3 | Idolatries of the heart lead to foolishness in the life. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 1d7ceed | Paul said when he got to the cities of the Mediterranean. He said, "They saw him, and touched him. He really rose. That proves that the kingdom of God is real and will triumph. If you believe, you enter his realm and power now." 76 The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true." | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| e182d6e | Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship... is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough... Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 63f7292 | People who laugh at the claim that there is a transcendent moral order do not think that racial genocide is just impractical or self-defeating, but that it is wrong. The Nazis who exterminated Jews may have claimed that they didn't feel it was immoral at all. We don't care. We don't care if they sincerely felt they were doing a service to humanity. They ought not to have done it. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 0136995 | She reasoned, she doubted, she surrendered, she connected with others. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| bdfbab3 | When a Russian cosmonaut returned from space and reported that he had not found God, C. S. Lewis responded that this was like Hamlet going into the attic of his castle looking for Shakespeare. If there is a God, he wouldn't be another object in the universe that could be put in a lab and analyzed with empirical methods. He would relate to us the way a playwright relates to the characters in his play. We (characters) might be able to know qu.. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 5b50cb9 | Christians do not claim that their faith gives them omniscience or absolute knowledge of reality. Only God has that. But they believe that the Christian account of things--creation, fall, redemption, and restoration--makes the most sense of the world. I ask you to put on Christianity like a pair of spectacles and look at the world with it. See what power it has to explain what we know and see. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 59745cf | Lord, I don't like some of the things I find taught in the Bible. I don't like some of the ways you arrange the circumstances of my life. I confess I don't even like the doctrine of grace--I'd rather earn my salvation so you owe me. In all these ways I refuse to let you be God. Forgive me. Amen. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 37ff780 | And yet, why do you think Jesus Christ came into this world through a pregnant, unwed teenage girl in a patriarchal shame-and-honor culture? God didn't have to do it that way. But I think it was his way of saying, "I don't do things the way the world expects, but in the opposite way altogether. My power is made perfect in weakness. My Savior-Prince will be born not into a cradle in a royal palace but into a feed trough in a stable --not to .. | jesus savior | Timothy J. Keller | |
| 08b5045 | This pattern of the Cross means that the world's glorification of power, might, and status is exposed and defeated. On the cross Christ wins through losing, triumphs through defeat, achieves power through weakness and service, comes to wealth via giving all away. Jesus Christ turns the values of the world upside down. | jesus | Timothy J. Keller | |
| cc68ec3 | Jesus's own answer to this question, through the parable, is similar. He is on the side of neither the irreligious nor the religious, but he singles out religious moralism as a particularly deadly spiritual condition. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 1a35b34 | There is a difference between believing that God is holy and gracious, and having a new sense on the heart of the loveliness and beauty of that holiness and grace. The difference between believing that God is gracious and tasting that God is gracious is as different as having a rational belief that honey is sweet and having the actual sense of its sweetness."13" | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| a4ba67c | Prayer brings perspective, shows the big picture, gets you out of the weeds, reorients you to where you really are. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| d9509a1 | Jesus not only preached the word, but also healed the sick, fed the hungry, and cared for the needs of the poor. | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| d6a1c99 | Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself--in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him. So | Timothy J. Keller | ||
| 7c94962 | If doctrinal soundness is not accompanied by heart experience, it will lead eventually to nominal Christianity--that is, in name only--and eventually to nonbelief. The irony is that many conservative Christians, most concerned about conserving true and sound doctrine, neglect the importance of prayer and make no effort to experience God, and this can lead to the eventual loss of sound doctrine. Owen believes that Christianity without real e.. | Timothy J. Keller |