Timothy Keller Quotes About Obedience

Quotes about: Obedience

• The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Essence

• The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

• Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

  Timothy Keller

  Father, Mean, Son

  "The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith".

• Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

  Timothy Keller

  Law, May, Self Centered

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.14, Penguin

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