Timothy Keller Quotes

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• The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate…
• We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:9 says…
• The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s…
• Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
• But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties…
• Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.
• Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.
• The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.
• It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.
• Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound,…
• Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see…
• The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs…
• You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
• The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.
• God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.
• Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.
• The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for…
• Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking…
• The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.
• We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it’s not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that…

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