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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 9

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What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

Secret

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

Pain, Essence, Giving

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

Church, Transparent

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

God, Religious, Prayer

Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT...the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

Book, Teaching, Thinking

It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

Change, Bible, Christian

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.19, Penguin

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

Suffering, Illusion, Competence

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.41, Penguin

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

Jesus, Order, Christ

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

Firsts, Sweetness, Save Yourself

God loves you just because He loves you.

Love You, God Love, God Loves You

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.

Two, People, Broken

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

Life, God, Religious

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.44, Penguin

...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.

Christian, Dream, Jesus

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.129, Penguin

If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.

Jesus, Believe, Hard Work

Timothy Keller (2009). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith”, p.60, Hachette UK

Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.

Bible, God, Christian

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. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

Jesus, Heart, Thinking

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.

Judging, Moral, Preference

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’

Heart, Sorrow, Sin

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

Jesus, Strong, Ministry

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'

Jesus, Giving, Treasure

There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

Real, Responsibility, Self

Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.

Salvation, Significance, Presbyterians

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

Heart, Idols, Giving

To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

Doctrine, Matter, Salvation

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

Suffering, Misery, Misery And Suffering

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

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