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Timothy Keller Quotes about Jesus - Page 3

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Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace

Jesus, Mistake, Successful

Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.

Jesus, Community, And Love

If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.

Christian, Jesus, Stress

If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that's your real king.

Jesus, Kings, Real

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

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

Jesus, Believe, If There Is A God

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.

Christian, Jesus, Flawed

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.179, Penguin

Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed.

Jesus, Offers, Asks

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

Christian, Jesus, Essence

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

Change, Religious, Jesus

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.46, Penguin

Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.

Crush, Jesus, Example

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

Jesus, Heart, Purpose

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.3, Penguin

The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

Jesus, Pride, Lost

Timothy Keller (2013). “Gospel Renewal: Center Church, Part Two”, p.36, Harper Collins

Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.

Jesus, Humble, Self

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

Jesus, Sacrifice, Temples

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.4, Penguin

Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

Jesus, Homelessness, Loses

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

Jesus, Tree, Tree Of Life

As many have learned and later taught, you don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

Jesus, Needs, Taught

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.24, Penguin

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.

Jesus, Thinking, Order

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.105, Penguin

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

Jesus, Grace, Doctrine

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

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.

Jesus, Rose, Resurrection

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

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

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

Jesus, Caregivers, Lord

Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.

Jesus, Forgiving, Failing

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.172, Penguin

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