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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 12

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Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Real, Struggle, Imagination

An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

Religious, Mistake, Book

Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed.

Jesus, Offers, Asks

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

Secularism, Performances

At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.

Humanity, Sin, Lord

Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne."

Christian, Falling In Love, Mean

"The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God".

Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.

Grateful, Believe, Heart

The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.

Laughter, Greatness, Worship You

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.

Christian, Too Much, Sin

It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.

Thinking, Way, Claims

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.34, Penguin

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

Christian, Jesus, Essence

The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.

Order, Expectations, Purpose

If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.

Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.

Accomplishment, Identity, Kind

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

Effort, Merit, Moral

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.69, Penguin

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

Father, Son, Judging

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

Achievement, Affection, Worship

Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

Christian, Religious, Choices

For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

Keys, Justice For All, Israel

Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.34, Penguin

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

Change, Religious, Jesus

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.46, Penguin

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person.

Crush, Jobs, Mean

Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.2, Penguin

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

Religion, Needs, Hell

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

Feelings, Significance

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

Beautiful, Sex, Degrees

The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.

People, Community, Church

Timothy Keller (2017). “Ministries of Mercy: Learning To Care Like Jesus”, p.185, SPCK

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