If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
More Timothy Keller Quotes
-
-
Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
TIMOTHY KELLER -
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Many times people think if God has called you to something, he’s promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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 -
Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
TIMOTHY KELLER