Timothy Keller Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

• Christianity does not provide the reason for
  each experience of pain,
  but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering
  with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Hope, Courage

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.46, Penguin

• Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

  Timothy Keller

  Long, Way, Sticks

• 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. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.

  Timothy Keller

  Karma, God, Meaningful

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

• In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.

  Timothy Keller

  Beautiful, Christianity

• The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

  Timothy Keller

  Earth, Faces, Resurrection

• Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we always wanted but never achieved. And because the joy will be even greater for all that evil, this means the final defeat of all those forces that would have destroyed the purpose of God in creation, namely, to live with his people in glory and delight forever.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Mean

  "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

• I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Religious, War

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.20, Penguin

• Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.

  Timothy Keller

  Christianity, Accepted

• The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

  Timothy Keller

  Differences, Culture, Christianity

• Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, Doe, Assuming

• Christianity is not just for the strong; it's for everyone.

  Timothy Keller

  Strong, Christianity

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions”, p.18, Penguin

• In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite.

  Timothy Keller

  Children, Mean, Opposites

• If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Doubt, Firsts

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.17, Penguin

• 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 midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

  Timothy Keller

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

• The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.

  Timothy Keller

  Progress, Doctrine, Kingdoms

• I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

• This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Lying, Heart

• To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.

  Timothy Keller

  Teaching, Thinking, Views

• If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.

  Timothy Keller

  Offending, Christianity, Really True

• 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 that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Grief

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.38, Penguin

• One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, People, Way

• Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Two, Add

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