Timothy Keller Quotes About Jesus Christ

Quotes about: Jesus 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  "Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions".

• The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Dark, World

• Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.

  Timothy Keller

  Crush, Jesus, Example

• Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us ... He laid aside the infinities and immensities of His being and, at the cost of His life, paid the debt for our sins, purchasing us the only place our hearts can rest, in His Father's house. Knowing He did this will transform us from the inside out.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Father, Heart

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.33, Penguin

• I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.44, 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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