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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 13

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Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

Real, Weakness, Resurrection

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

Holy, Loving God, Crosses

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

Heart, Reality, Who We Are

Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.

Crush, Jesus, Example

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

Jesus, Heart, Purpose

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.3, Penguin

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.

Moving, Commitment, Love Is

Timothy Keller (2013). “The Obedient Master”, p.34, Penguin

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

Jesus, Pride, Lost

Timothy Keller (2013). “Gospel Renewal: Center Church, Part Two”, p.36, Harper Collins

Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.

God, Religious, Law

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

To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.

Teaching, Thinking, Views

The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.

Teaching, Issues, Rose

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

Things In Life, Best Things In Life, Best Things

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?

Spiritual, Reality, Comprehensive

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.31, Penguin

Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

Love, Giving, Feelings

Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.

Jesus, Humble, Self

Easter means that Christmas worked.

Easter, Mean

Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.

Christian, Knowledge, Thinking

"Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

Love, Marriage, Feelings

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.66, Penguin

The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.

Joy, Sin, Christ

Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.

Mean, Promise, Path

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

Museums, Broken, Church

Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.

Commitment, Reason, Certainty

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

Faith, Doubt, Religion

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.18, Penguin

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

Jesus, Sacrifice, Temples

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.4, Penguin

If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

Generosity, Giving, Justice

Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.23, Penguin

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

Christian, Religious, Sin

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