Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of faith and divine support in overcoming suffering.
Timothy Keller's quote suggests that the experience of suffering can feel overwhelming and intolerable, especially if one lacks the assurance of divine presence and support. Faith in God provides comfort and strength during difficult times, allowing individuals to endure hardships by feeling supported and accompanied through their struggles.
In practice
In discussing the challenges of life, one might say, 'As Timothy Keller noted, suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.'
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.
The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.
The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.
People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
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