Timothy Keller Quotes About Jesus

Quotes about: Jesus

• Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Answers

• Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Realizing, Christ

• The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Good Life, Rejection

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.180, Penguin

• If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Life Changing, Teaching

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.210, Penguin

• Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

  Timothy Keller

  Marriage, Jesus, Men

• Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Done, Proud

• The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.31, Penguin

• Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Baby, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.190, Penguin

• Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Flawed

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

• The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Essence

• 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. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Confidence, Jesus

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

• ...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Dream, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.129, Penguin

• We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Strong, Ministry

• When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Father, Thinking

• After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Redemption, Creation

• The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Pride, Lost

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Gospel Renewal: Center Church, Part Two”, p.36, Harper Collins

• Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Sex, Thinking

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.40, Penguin

• Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Jesus, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.123, Penguin

• All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

  Timothy Keller

  Change, Religious, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.46, Penguin

• The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Should Have, Earth

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

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Grief, Sacrifice

• Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.74, Penguin

• Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, If There Is A God

• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Brother, Race

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

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