When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
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The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
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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.
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How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
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The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.
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Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
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