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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 15

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Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

Jesus, Tree, Tree Of Life

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

Powerful, Passion, Thinking

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.164, Penguin

As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

Jesus, Needs, Taught

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.24, Penguin

God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.

Reality, Kingdoms, Embrace

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.

Jesus, Thinking, Order

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.105, Penguin

Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation.

Mean, Frustration, Careers

Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.87, Penguin

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

Spiritual, Keys, Discovery

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

Jesus, Grace, Doctrine

As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

Christ, Authority, Health Beauty

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

Doe, Confrontation, Spouse

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.91, Penguin

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

Commitment, Self Righteous, Committed Relationship

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.62, Penguin

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

God, Jesus, Jobs

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.93, Penguin

To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God.

Feelings, Sparks, Good Feeling

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

People, Giving, Asking

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

Inspirational, God, Religious

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.

Makers, Greater, Delighted

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

Love Is, Our Love, Way

The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.

Grace, Doctrine, Redemption

Prayer turns theology into experience.

Prayer, Theology, Turns

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.54, Penguin

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

Grace, Saving, Christ

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.67, Penguin

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.

Jesus, Rose, Resurrection

"The Reason for God: Belief in an age of scepticism".

The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

Grace, Grace Of God, Deeper

Timothy Keller (2017). “Ministries of Mercy: Learning To Care Like Jesus”, p.45, SPCK

Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.

Believe, Ministry, Poor

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

Neighbor, Products, Related

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.127, Penguin

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

Thinking, Feels

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