Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me. Timothy Keller More Quotes by Timothy Keller More Quotes From Timothy Keller Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves. Timothy Keller humility talking funny Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not. Timothy Keller done should prayer Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you. Timothy Keller heaven If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart Timothy Keller differences heart people The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become. Timothy Keller grace-of-god deeper grace The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment. Timothy Keller judgment judging crosses While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place. Timothy Keller doubt want giving Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty. Timothy Keller certainty reason commitment Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel. Timothy Keller our-relationship salvation christ The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life. Timothy Keller better-life doe promise We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have. Timothy Keller angry better-life feels The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners. Timothy Keller church should people Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ. Timothy Keller saving grace christ ...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 Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor. Timothy Keller related neighbor products Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think. Timothy Keller giving jesus thinking No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus. Timothy Keller people jesus thinking Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses. Timothy Keller grateful heart believe Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow. Timothy Keller motivation self heart You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are. Timothy Keller feels thinking
