Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 11

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• There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.

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  Hurt, Real, Believe

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• The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.

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  Two, Accepted, Sinner

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• 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.

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  Christian, Compassion, Justice

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• Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.

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  Motivation, Heart, Self

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• A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antobodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

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  Smart, Believe, Reflection

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• Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

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  God, Jesus, Jobs

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.197, Penguin

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• We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

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  Heart, Reality, Who We Are

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• When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.

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  Wise, Confused, Two

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• Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

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  Grace, Saving, Christ

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.67, Penguin

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• We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.

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  Jesus, Brother, Race

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.48, Penguin

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• To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

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  Slavery, Process, Instant

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• Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

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  I Love You, Christian, Falling In Love

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• The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.

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  Christian, Jesus, Flawed

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.179, Penguin

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• Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

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  Religious, Jesus, Believe

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.5, Penguin

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• Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

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  Grace, Christ, Humbling

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• Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

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  God, Christian, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.58, Penguin

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• If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.

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  Christian, Jesus, Stress

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• Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

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  Inspiration, Despair, Together

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.94, Penguin

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• You are under-qualified for the job of God.

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  Jobs, Qualified

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• 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.

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  Crush, Jesus, Example

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• Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

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  Secularism, Performances

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• If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

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  People, Gains, Influence

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• The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

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  Heart, Consolation, Offers

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Loving the City: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.56, Zondervan

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• We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:9 says that God forgives us because He is ‘just.’ That is a remarkable statement. It would be unjust of God to ever deny us forgiveness, because Jesus earned our acceptance! In religion we earn our forgiveness with our repentance, but in the gospel we just receive it.

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  Jesus, Acceptance, Order

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