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
Rather
Christ
Fear
Comes
Accepted
Running
Behinds
Behind
Joy
Race

More quotes by Timothy Keller

Image
Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.
Timothy Keller
Image
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
Image
Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross
Timothy Keller
Image
If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?
Timothy Keller
Image
To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.
Timothy Keller
Image
Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.
Timothy Keller
Image
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
Timothy Keller
Image
Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.
Timothy Keller
Image
The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.
Timothy Keller
Image
We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?
Timothy Keller
Image
Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.
Timothy Keller
Image
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.
Timothy Keller
Image
If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.
Timothy Keller
Image
At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.
Timothy Keller
Image
Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
Timothy Keller
Image
Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.
Timothy Keller
Image
We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
Timothy Keller
Image
Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.
Timothy Keller
Image
Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.
Timothy Keller
Image
Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God
Timothy Keller