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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 4

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After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

Jesus, Redemption, Creation

Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

Identity, Records, Good Person

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

People, Tolerance, Belief

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

Justice, Church, Doe

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.

Design, Faithful, And Love

Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.77, Penguin

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

Looks, Calling, Way

Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.249, Penguin

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

Fall, Love You, Love Is

Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom.

God, Pain, Past

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.40, Penguin

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

Christian, Band, Believer

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.48, Penguin

The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

Jesus, Grief, Sacrifice

The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.

Way To Live, Kingdoms, Way

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

Jesus, Life Changing, Teaching

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.210, Penguin

When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.

Self, Grace, Needs

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

Christian, Religious, People

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.38, Penguin

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

Giving, Desire, Praying

Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.

Prayer, Greatness, Recognition

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.

Grief, Love Is, Greatest Love

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

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

Forgiving, Sin, Radical

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.74, Penguin

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

Judging, Judgment, Crosses

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

Love Is, Important, Comfort

You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.

Imagine, Accepted, Dare

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

Jesus, Thinking, Giving

Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.71, Penguin

I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.

Glad, Dies

Timothy Keller (2013). “Gospel in Life Study Guide: Grace Changes Everything”, p.16, Zondervan

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

Prayer, Grace, Encounters

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.35, Penguin

You don't fall in love. You commit to it.

Falling In Love, Love You, Don't Fall In Love

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