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Timothy Keller Quotes about God

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Legalistic remorse says, I broke God's rules, while real repentance says, I broke God's heart.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

Heartbreak, God, Christian

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

God, Christian, Religious

The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

Love, Death, God

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.304, Penguin

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

God, Religious, Causes

Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.22, Harper Collins

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

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

God, Christian, Religious

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.81, Penguin

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

God, Religious, Pain

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.46, Penguin

Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

God, Jesus, Pain

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.123, Penguin

No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.

God, Pain, Good Life

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.12, Penguin

Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.

Karma, God, Meaningful

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Friendship, Marriage, God

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

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

God, Christian, Pain

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.58, Penguin

God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

God, Christian, Hope

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.23, Penguin

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

God, Religious, Prayer

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

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

Bible, God, Christian

Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.

God, Baby, Jesus

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.190, Penguin

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

Love, God, Christian

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.8, Penguin

Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.

God, Religious, Law

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

God, Pain, Joy

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.47, Penguin

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

God, Jesus, Jobs

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.93, Penguin

While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

Inspirational, God, Religious

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

God, Jesus, Jobs

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.197, Penguin

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

God, Pain, Ocean

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

God, Meaningful, Pain

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.26, Penguin

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