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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 20

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Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

Feelings, Sometimes, Appearance

So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.

Light, Grace, World

Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.246, Penguin

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

Jesus, Mean, Suffering

[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.

Views, Idols, Grace

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.61, Penguin

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

Heart, Ambition

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

Prayer, Trying, Doe

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

Growing, Products, Gentleness

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

Father, Mean, Son

"The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith".

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

Jesus, Simple, Wife

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.80, Penguin

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

Jesus, People, Quality

Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.29, Penguin

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

Prayer, Degrees, Scripture

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.40, Penguin

For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.

Looks, Sin, Savior

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

Jesus, Alternatives, Knees

Timothy Keller (2013). “The Mother of God”, p.9, Penguin

I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.

Christian, Religious, War

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.20, Penguin

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.

Idols, Comfort, Approval

Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

Honor, Creation, God Image

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

Good Things, Idolatry, Happens

It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.

Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

"Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions".

Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.

Jesus, Forever, Together

God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.

God Love, Economic, Social

Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.16, Penguin

The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.

Passion, Share, Observers

Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

Sympathy, Christian, Helping Others

Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.49, Penguin

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

Return, Significant, Dies

If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.

Jesus, Practice, People

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.5, Penguin

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

Promise, Future Love, Vow

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