Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
-
-
The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
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 -
Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
…the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
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 -
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 -
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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 -
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
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 -
Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
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 -
Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
TIMOTHY KELLER -
As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.
TIMOTHY KELLER