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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 11

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People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

Afterlife, People, Masters

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

Jesus, Mistake, Successful

Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.

Jesus, Community, And Love

If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.

Christian, Jesus, Stress

If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.

Jesus, Kings, Real

We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture.

Scripture, Should

The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.

Christian, Christian Life

Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.42, Harper Collins

Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

World, Blame, Problem

"Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work".

Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavors, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.

Reality, Differences, Forever

"Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work".

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

Life Changing, Shifting, Blame

You are under-qualified for the job of God.

Jobs, Qualified

Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

Grace, Christ, Humbling

God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

Self, Darkness, One Day

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

Book, Race, Needs

Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.

God, Baby, Jesus

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.190, Penguin

Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.

Running, Race, Joy

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Marriage, Real, Desire

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.55, Penguin

Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.

Love, Marriage, Wedding

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.84, Penguin

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

Grace, Needs, Want

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.56, Penguin

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

Love, God, Christian

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.8, Penguin

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

Jesus, Believe, If There Is A God

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.

Christian, Jesus, Flawed

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.179, Penguin

All life-changing love is inconvenient.

Life Changing, Love Is, Life Changing Love

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption .

Self, Interesting, Miserable

Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.21, Penguin

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

Love Is, Self, Truth Is

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