"Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire."

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Source : Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.16, Penguin

Timothy Keller

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“It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be obsessed with stretching towards that goal through an understanding of others and the world we inhabit. When that happens, the results, like photographs, are really the expressions of the life of the maker.”
“If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?”
“We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.”

Source : Presidential address to the AFPFL Supreme Council Session, August, 1946.
“I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.”
“I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.”
“Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?”
“The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.”
“Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.”

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