Quote

Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

Timothy Keller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Timothy Keller
Treats
Treated
Deserve
Jesus
Christ
Believe
Deserved
Deserves

More quotes by Timothy Keller

Image
It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.
Timothy Keller
Image
Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.
Timothy Keller
Image
Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.
Timothy Keller
Image
Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
Timothy Keller
Image
Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated, - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it.
Timothy Keller
Image
We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.
Timothy Keller
Image
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
Timothy Keller
Image
It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.
Timothy Keller
Image
A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!
Timothy Keller
Image
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
Timothy Keller
Image
You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
Timothy Keller
Image
When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
Timothy Keller
Image
The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
Timothy Keller
Image
If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
Timothy Keller
Image
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.
Timothy Keller
Image
If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
Timothy Keller
Image
When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.
Timothy Keller
Image
If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?
Timothy Keller
Image
If we can't love the sinner hate the sin then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.
Timothy Keller
Image
Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'
Timothy Keller