Timothy Keller Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Tolerance, Belief

• Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

  Timothy Keller

  Life, Faith, Christian

• Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Humble, Self

• Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

  Timothy Keller

  Faith, Doubt, Religion

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.18, Penguin

• In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Belief, Arguing

• Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people

  Timothy Keller

  People, Tolerance, Belief

• A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?

  Timothy Keller

  Believe, Doe, World

  Source: visionroom.com

• If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Doubt, Firsts

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.17, Penguin

• Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Important, Demand

• To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.

  Timothy Keller

  Teaching, Thinking, Views

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