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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 21

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Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.

Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.

Looks, Done, Want

If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.

Thinking, Knowing, Culture

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

Raw Materials, Sake, Creation

You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.

Jesus, Accepting, Rescue

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

God, Pain, Grief

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.38, Penguin

At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.

Jesus, Father, Home

Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.

Christianity, Accepted

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.44, Penguin

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.

Christian, Children, Mean

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

Real, Taken, Human Nature

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

Identity, Sin, Our Relationship

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.163, Penguin

It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

God, Art, Prayer

"Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

Thinking, People, Way

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

Squares, Cities, Earth

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

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

Prayer, Struggle, Reality

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.26, Penguin

It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.

Cities, Church, Movement

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

Love, Christian, Mean

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.211, Penguin

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

Heart, Mind, Settling

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.103, Penguin

Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'

Jesus, People, Prophet

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

Kings, Needs, Make You Happy

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

Lonely, Perfect, Sin

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

Evil, World, Source

The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not 'used' the gospel in and on all parts of our life.

Christian, Problem, Life Is

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

Church, Your Past, Preaching

If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.

Jesus, Giving Up, Suffering

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