While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.
Timothy KellerThe reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
Timothy KellerOnly with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.
Timothy KellerThe way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
Timothy Keller