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Timothy Keller Quotes about Jesus - Page 4

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It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

Jesus, Biblical, Savior

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.176, Penguin

If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

Teacher, Jesus, May

Jesus's 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, Miracle

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

I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.

Christian, Jesus, Believe

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.

Christian, Jesus, Eye

The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.

Jesus, Stories, Our Lives

Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.250, Penguin

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.

Jesus, Lord, Died

Timothy Keller (2009). “The Reason for God: Belief in an age of scepticism”, p.140, Hachette UK

Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.

Jesus, Doe, News

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

Jesus, World, Matter

To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.

Jesus, Believe, Character

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Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'.

Jesus, Answers

The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

Religious, Jesus, Self

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.

Jesus, Philosophical, Giving Love

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.30, Penguin

Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

Jesus, Father, Son

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

The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.

Jesus, Order, Lovely

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

Jesus, Mean, Suffering

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

Jesus, Simple, Wife

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.80, Penguin

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

Jesus, People, Quality

Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.29, Penguin

Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

Jesus, Alternatives, Knees

Timothy Keller (2013). “The Mother of God”, p.9, Penguin

It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.

Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

"Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions".

Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.

Jesus, Forever, Together

If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.

Jesus, Practice, People

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

You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.

Jesus, Accepting, Rescue

At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.

Jesus, Father, Home

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.44, Penguin

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