Timothy Keller Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

  Timothy Keller

  Grateful, Heart, Mercy Of God

• When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.

  Timothy Keller

  Justice, World, Glory

• If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

  Timothy Keller

  Justice, Church, Doe

• 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

• Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

  Timothy Keller

  Justice, Generosity, Vulnerable

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

• For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

  Timothy Keller

  Keys, Justice For All, Israel

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.34, Penguin

• A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more deeply and practically committed to evangelism and conversion than traditional fundamentalist churches. This kind of church is profoundly counter-intuitive to American observers. It breaks their ability to categorize (and dismiss) it as liberal or conservative. Only this kind of church has any chance in the non-Christian west.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Compassion, Justice

• There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Justice, Grace

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.13, Penguin

• Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality once again--a world of peace and justice,
  without death, disease, or conflict.

  Timothy Keller

  Fall, Reality, Order

• We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.

  Timothy Keller

  Justice, Evangelism

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.86, Penguin

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