Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.
Timothy KellerThe early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.
Timothy KellerChange wonโt happen through โtrying harderโ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
Timothy KellerEven if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.
Timothy KellerJesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.
Timothy Keller