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God Quotes by Timothy Keller
- 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…
- If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
- The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
- 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 from God,…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways…
- Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God
- How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?
- Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating that we are…
- Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."
- Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
- While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi