More Quotes by Timothy Keller
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?
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.
No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
