black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

Timothy Keller

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Christian Disagree God Idealize might Version Worship Yourself
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
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Character Community Converse Eat Mainly Person Play Primarily Social Strap Study
This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Christianity Heart Humble Lying Religious Truth
No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Aband Agony Betray Do Down Father Greatest History Look Love Make
It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Anything Difficulty Fortifies Liberate Need Pretense Righteousness Self
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Absorb Always Come Cost Forgiveness Grant One Retaliate
Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Find Salvation Significance
The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Cross Judge Judgment Place Take
A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Based Being Good Gratitude Life Over Righteousness Save Self
Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Certain God Suffer Unbearable With You
The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Ability Ask Beyond Happy Human Main Make Misdentify People Problem Save Thing
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Changing Dead Everything Jesus Life Rose Said Teach Worry
The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Came Christ Death Died Earth Gospel Jesus Life Live
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Created Desire Effort Everything Love Make Someone
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

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Timothy Keller Quotes