Timothy Keller Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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

• Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne."

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Falling In Love, Mean

  "The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God".

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

  Timothy Keller

  Earth, Faces, Resurrection

• 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

• At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Father, Home

• If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

  Timothy Keller

  Community, Missing, Church

• 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

• Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Earth, Life Is

• Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Giving, Treasure

• Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

  Timothy Keller

  Squares, Cities, Earth

  "Loving the City: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".

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