Timothy Keller Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Redemption, Creation

• If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

  Timothy Keller

  Generosity, Giving, Justice

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.23, Penguin

• The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Purpose, World

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.217, Penguin

• 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".

• Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Forever, Together

• Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

  Timothy Keller

  Raw Materials, Sake, Creation

• Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

  Timothy Keller

  Honor, Creation, God Image

• Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.

  Timothy Keller

  Race, Diversity, Together

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.217, Penguin

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