The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
TIMOTHY KELLER
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
-
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
-
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.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
TIMOTHY KELLER -
When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
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 -
If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
