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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 14

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If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.

If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.

Offending, Christianity, Really True

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

Forgiveness, Religious, Cost

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.32, Penguin

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

Religious, Prayer, Greatness

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.23, Penguin

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

Forgiveness, Grace, Perpetrators

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

Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.

Exercise, Journey, Intellectual

If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

Grateful, Heart, Mercy Of God

The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.

Mean, Restoration, Body

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.82, Penguin

To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.

Christian, Reason, Repent

Timothy Keller (2009). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith”, p.41, Hachette UK

Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.

Humility, Grace, Grows

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

Long, Doe, Definitions

While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

Giving, Doubt, Want

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

Earth, Faces, Resurrection

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

Idols, Culture, Addresses

Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.38, Harper Collins

If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

Children, Week, Child Of God

It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

Important, Stories, Bullets

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

Hate, Suffering, Down And

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

Common Vision, People, Different

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.73, Penguin

But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

God, Pain, Joy

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.47, Penguin

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Religious, Praying, Failing

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.23, Penguin

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

Christian, Prayer, Powerful

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.88, Penguin

All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.

Christian, Opportunity, Church

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.

Prayer, Powerful, Way

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.50, Penguin

Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

Jesus, Homelessness, Loses

If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.

Heart, Sight, Trying

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.45, Penguin

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

Prayer, Encounters, Conversation

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