Quote

Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.

Timothy Keller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Timothy Keller
Fear
Comes
Accepted
Running
Behinds
Behind
Joy
Race
Rather
Christ

More quotes by Timothy Keller

Image
Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth.
Timothy Keller
Image
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.
Timothy Keller
Image
Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.
Timothy Keller
Image
If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
Timothy Keller
Image
The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.
Timothy Keller
Image
The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.
Timothy Keller
Image
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
Timothy Keller
Image
Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.
Timothy Keller
Image
Prayer turns theology into experience.
Timothy Keller
Image
Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
Timothy Keller
Image
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
Timothy Keller
Image
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Timothy Keller
Image
Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?
Timothy Keller
Image
To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.
Timothy Keller
Image
Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.
Timothy Keller
Image
Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.
Timothy Keller
Image
The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.
Timothy Keller
Image
Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
Timothy Keller
Image
The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.
Timothy Keller
Image
If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.
Timothy Keller