black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Christian Deeply Dream Jesus Marriage Must Relationship Single Status
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
TIMOTHY KELLER

Afraid Anxious Give God Look Need Say Son
Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Daily Done Feel Least Like Persistently Prater Regularly Resolutely Tenaciously
The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Access Dull God History Miss Nobody Paid Resurrection Right Stamp
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

Bless Eternal Experience Many People Promise Succes Thing Time
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Actually Faith Object Save Strength
Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Currency Generosity Life Money One Only Perceive
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
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

Become Christ Jesus Like More Suffer
This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Anyone Deed Humanity Less Myself Nothing Superior Swagger Think Undermine
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

Attractive Cross Down Give Jesus Look Myself Think
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

Failure Go Head Heart Identity Rather Success Work
Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Believe Christ Deserve God Jesus Treat
We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Danger Free Grasp Jesus Light Regularly Sin View
In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
TIMOTHY KELLER

Beautiful Christianity God Obey Religion Useful
The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome…
TIMOTHY KELLER

Able Against Bible Break Jesus Christ Overcome Purpose Save Sin

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Timothy Keller Quotes