The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that love is not based on accomplishments but rather is an intrinsic gift that empowers us.
Timothy Keller's quote contrasts the world's perspective on love, which often ties it to our actions and achievements, with Jesus' message of unconditional love. According to this belief, our value and capabilities stem from being loved, suggesting that understanding love in this way frees individuals to pursue their potential without the burden of performance pressure.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a motivational speech about self-acceptance.
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.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
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.
In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, βHere begins a new lifeβ.
YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.
This maiden she lived with no other thought_x000D_ _x000D_ Than to love and be loved by me.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.
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