Timothy Keller Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

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

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Grief, Sacrifice

• You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment.

  Timothy Keller

  Marriage, Kindness, Grief

• There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

  Timothy Keller

  Grief, Giving, Joy

• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Grief, Love Is, Greatest Love

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

• While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. 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.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Grief

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

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