Timothy Keller Quotes

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• God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver..
• Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a…
• Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love…
• Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.
• If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
• Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.
• The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
• There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
• Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
• If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were…
• Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.
• Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words…
• Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When…
• Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
• The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.
• Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.
• No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to…
• Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful.…
• While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the…
• Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by…

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