Timothy Keller Quotes

581 quotes · Pastor, Author

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Timothy Keller Quotes

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Timothy Keller

Pastor, Author

Motivated

“Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.”

Christian Powerful Prayer

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Timothy Keller

Pastor, Author

Sad

“If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.”

May Jesus Teacher

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Hopeful

“Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.”

Doe Jesus News

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Confident

“If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?”

Ifs Salvation

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Inspired

“Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.”

Jobs Jesus

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Grateful

“I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.”

Book Spiritual Discipline

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Sad

“In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.”

Pain God Meaningful

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Optimistic

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

Christian Too Much Sin

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Philosophical

“The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.”

Issues Teaching Rose

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Hopeful

“The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.”

Pressure Prove Relentless

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Sad

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

Believe Christian Heaven

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Sad

“Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him.”

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