black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

Related Topics

Comfort Grief Jesus Power Recognition Sacrifice Success Value World

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Basic Good Jesus Life Live Morality Most Person Premise Religion Upright Wrong
You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Accept Dare Hope Imagine More Sinful
When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Pray Proper Still Suffer
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Fear Greatness Lord Love Overwhelmed
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Believe Christ Dare Flawed Gospel Jesus Ourselves Sinful
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Actual Faith Grace Need Object Prerequisite Receiving Save
There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Become Believe Hurt Real Relationship Vulnerable
So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).
TIMOTHY KELLER

Bless Eternal Experience Many People Promise Succes Thing Time
Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Accept Christ Dare Jesus Love More Same Time Yet
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, ‘My life for your life.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Create Earn Jesus Life Religion Say Secular Society
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Appreciate Deserve God Grace Offer People Relentlessly Save Seek
The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
TIMOTHY KELLER

Change Done Jesus Key Order Question
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Believe Bitterness God Right Worry Wrong
Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Become Christ Jesus Like More Suffer
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Accountability Commitment Everyone Friendship People Run Running Say Way
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Come God Invite Stay

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes