Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.
– Timothy J Keller
Related Quotes:
- Only if I heal, can you heal. Only if you heal, can I heal. Otherwise, we would continue to scar each other. – Srividya Srinivasan
- Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel. – Gina Barreca
- Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. – Ezra Pound
- Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints. – Timothy J Keller
- I CAN’T GO ON! I FEEL LIKE NONE OF MY EMOTIONAL WOUNDS CAN HEAL! AS SOON AS IT TRIES TO HEAL, IT SHATTERS AGAIN! I CAN’T HEAL! – Shine
- Heal yourself, heal the world. To change our world, we must heal and open our hearts. – Eileen Anglin
- When you awaken and are self aware, you heal. When you heal, you heal the world. – Eileen Anglin
- You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways. – Timothy J Keller
- All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart. – Timothy J Keller
- Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin’s enslaving nature. – Timothy J Keller
- Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence. – Timothy J Keller
- Conversation with God leads to an encounter with God. Prayer turns theology into experience. – Timothy J Keller
- You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear. – Timothy J Keller
- The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can’t be co-opted by either moralism or relativism. – Timothy J Keller
- Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. – Timothy J Keller
- While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage. – Timothy J Keller
- No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love. – Timothy J Keller
- Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged. – Timothy J Keller
- The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain. – Timothy J Keller
- Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you. – Timothy J Keller
- If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life. – Timothy J Keller
- A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments. – Timothy J Keller
- Idolatry means turning a good thing into the ultimate thing. – Timothy J Keller
- True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along. – Timothy J Keller
- The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. – Henry Miller
- We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. – Marc Aug
- I’m a heart surgeon, sure, but I’m just a mechanic. I go in and I ???? around and I fix things. Shit. – Raymond Carver
- Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon’s knife. – Anurag Shourie
- A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully. – Jas Kohli
- You don’t get it boy… this isn’t a mudhole… its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I’m the surgeon. – Frank Miller
- Your words are like mirrors. They may cut, but they also reflect. – Timothy Joshua
- Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair. – Honor de Balzac
- Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed. – Nathan Feuerstein NF
- you cut me deep bitch,cut me like surgery. – Kanye West
- Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? Â – Henri CartierBresson
- If he’d cut off his right arm to make her happy, then how much harder could it be to cut out his heart? – Kathy Lyons
- Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. – Haruki Murakami
- If you cut a tree down make sure you also cut the roots for if not a new tree will come – Hamza Akhtar
- A scar on the heart will heal. Let your love remain pure as if it was never cut in the first place. – Aline Alzime