Suffering Quotes by Timothy Keller

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

— Timothy Keller

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

— Timothy Keller

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

— Timothy Keller

When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

— Timothy Keller

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

— Timothy Keller

If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.

— Timothy Keller

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

— Timothy Keller

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

— Timothy Keller

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but…

— Timothy Keller

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

— Timothy Keller

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

— Timothy Keller

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

— Timothy Keller

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

— Timothy Keller

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

— Timothy Keller

Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used…

— Timothy Keller

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for…

— 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…

— Timothy Keller

Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need…

— Timothy Keller

At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone.…

— Timothy Keller

Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism,…

— Timothy Keller

We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1…

— Timothy Keller

The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is…

— Timothy Keller

Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access.…

— Timothy Keller

Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of…

— Timothy Keller

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

— Timothy Keller

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

— Timothy Keller

Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.

— Timothy Keller

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with…

— Timothy Keller

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

— Timothy Keller

“As I took up life as a minister, I tried to understand why so many people resisted and rejected God, I soon…

— Timothy Keller

The God of the Bible takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself

— Timothy Keller