Timothy Keller Quotes About Sacrifice

Quotes about: Sacrifice

• God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Sacrifice, Loss

  "Counterfeit Gods: When the Empty Promises of Love, Money and Power Let You Down".

• The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Grief, Sacrifice

• If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

• Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Temples

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.4, Penguin

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