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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 17

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Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

People, Tolerance, Belief

The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.

Pressure, Relentless, Prove

Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.73, Penguin

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

Prayer, Reality, May

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.43, Penguin

The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.

World, Messages

Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.

Giving, Desire, Lines

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.85, Penguin

I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.

Christian, Jesus, Believe

True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.

Cities, Citizens, Residents

Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.

Beautiful, Religious, People

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

Men, Enemy, Saved

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

Two, Accepted, Sinner

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.

Christian, Jesus, Eye

The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.

Jesus, Stories, Our Lives

Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.250, Penguin

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

Christian, Earth, Life Is

Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.

Grace, Sin, Grace Of God

Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.

People, Judgement, Grace

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

Hate, Sin

I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

Spiritual, Book, Discipline

You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.

World, Able, Don't Change

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

Sin, Crosses, Sinner

Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality once again--a world of peace and justice, without death, disease, or conflict.

Fall, Reality, Order

Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself

Prayer, Entering, Way

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.47, Penguin

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

Rip, Together, Veils

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.

Firsts, Repentance, Heal

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

Heart, Mind, Want

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

Prayer, Infinite, Intimacy

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