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Timothy Keller Quotes about Suffering

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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

Jesus, Promise, Suffering

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

Fire, Suffering, Walks

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.16, Penguin

When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

Jobs, Suffering, Stills

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

Wise, Heart, Suffering

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

Suffering, Christ

Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.

Jesus, Suffering, Looks

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

Joy, Suffering, Depth

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

Pain, Suffering, Pain And Suffering

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.13, 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

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".

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Suffering, Stripping, Finite

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

Hate, Suffering, Down And

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

Greatness, Suffering, Treated

Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.127, Penguin

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

Jesus, Mean, Suffering

If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.

Jesus, Giving Up, Suffering

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

Powerful, Suffering, Powerful God

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