Timothy Keller Quotes About Trust In God

Quotes about: Trust In God

• If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Identity, Christ

• If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.

  Timothy Keller

  Ifs

• Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.46, Penguin

• Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

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  Heaven

• Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.

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  Accepting

• Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

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  Mean, Trying, Christ

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.29, Harper Collins

• Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

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  Fire, Suffering, Walks

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.16, Penguin

• Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.

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  Christian, Too Much, Sin

• Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

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  Things In Life, Best Things In Life, Best Things

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

• Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

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  Believe, Pride, Driven

• Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

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  Grief, Love Is, Greatest Love

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.38, Penguin

• If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

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  Trust, Servant Of God, Agendas

• Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Alternatives, Knees

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Mother of God”, p.9, Penguin

• When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Caregivers, Lord

• Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Believe, Heaven

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