Timothy Keller Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• 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

  Heart, Identity, Christ

• Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Realizing, Christ

• The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.31, Penguin

• 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 how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Baby, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.190, Penguin

• Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

• Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

  Timothy Keller

  Suffering, Christ

• Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.

  Timothy Keller

  Moving, Commitment, Love Is

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Obedient Master”, p.34, Penguin

• Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.

  Timothy Keller

  Giving, Scar, Resurrection

• Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'

  Timothy Keller

  Principles, Done, Christ

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.178, Penguin

• The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

  Timothy Keller

  Past, Christ, Our Relationship

• 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, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Jesus, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.123, Penguin

• All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

  Timothy Keller

  Change, Religious, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.46, Penguin

• The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Should Have, Earth

• Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

  Timothy Keller

  Identity, Records, Good Person

• Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, If There Is A God

• Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

  Timothy Keller

  Christ, Righteousness

• Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Trying, Christ

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.29, Harper Collins

• Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Order, Christ

• Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Promise, Suffering

• Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Christ, Humbling

• 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 he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Suffering, Looks

• The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Ocean

• In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.135, Penguin

• In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Philosophical, Giving Love

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.30, Penguin

• 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, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Giving, Christ

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