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Timothy Keller Quotes about Jesus - Page 2

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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

Jesus, Light, Views

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

Jesus, Follow Me, Discipleship

Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

Jesus, Sex, Thinking

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.40, Penguin

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

Jesus, Purpose, World

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.217, Penguin

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

Jesus, Attachment, Looks

The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.

Jesus, World, All Things

We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.

Jesus, Brother, Race

Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.48, Penguin

What you treasure will ultimately require you die for it, Jesus is the only treasure that died for you.

Jesus, Treasure, Died

The key question in order to change you is not 'What would Jesus do?' but "What has Jesus done for you?"

Jesus, Keys, Order

Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.

Jesus, Crowns, Claims

Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

Jesus, Thinking, Important

We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:9 says that God forgives us because He is ‘just.’ That is a remarkable statement. It would be unjust of God to ever deny us forgiveness, because Jesus earned our acceptance! In religion we earn our forgiveness with our repentance, but in the gospel we just receive it.

Jesus, Acceptance, Order

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

Jesus, Order, Christ

...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

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 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

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

Religious, Jesus, Believe

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

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.74, Penguin

Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life.

Jesus, Moments

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.169, Penguin

A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.

Jesus, Might, Absence

Timothy Keller (2013). “Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions”, p.52, Penguin

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

Marriage, Jesus, Men

The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

Jesus, Dark, World

We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.

Jesus, Forget, Forgotten

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