"Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair."
- Timothy Keller
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"The advice I would give [the younger me] - or any young person - would be "Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success."
- Jerry Seinfeld
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"If you work through the tough times, the respect and love that you feel deepens."
- Barack Obama
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"Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."
- Garrison Keillor
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Please remember:
- your job is the dream of the unemployed,
- your house is the dream of the homeless,
- your smile is the dream of the depressed,
- your health is the dream of those who are sick.
Find something to be grateful for.
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"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 Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
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"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Nelson Mandela
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"To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense?"
- Timothy Keller