Timothy Keller Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Marriage, Giving

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

• Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Self, Giving

• God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Prayer

• God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?

  Timothy Keller

  Son, Giving, Needs

• The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

  Timothy Keller

  Pain, Essence, Giving

• 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

• When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Father, Thinking

• 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

• What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Idols, Giving

• Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.74, Penguin

• The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Family, Success

• You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment.

  Timothy Keller

  Marriage, Kindness, Grief

• Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Giving, Feelings

• There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

  Timothy Keller

  Grief, Giving, Joy

• 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

• It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.

  Timothy Keller

  Mistake, Thinking, Giving

• An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Mistake, Book

• It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Art, Prayer

  "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

• Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.

  Timothy Keller

  Marriage, Giving, Feelings

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.63, Penguin

• 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

• Living is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.

  Timothy Keller

  Giving, Want, Ifs

• 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

• 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

• Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.

  Timothy Keller

  Names, Giving, Needs

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