All TIMOTHY KELLER Quotes about “Christ”

“If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.”
“Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?”
“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.”
“Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.”
“Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.”
“Christ did not suffer so you wouldnâ€™t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.”
“Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.”
“Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.”
“Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'”
“The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.”
“All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.”
“Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.”
“The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.”
“Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'”
“Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, Iâ€™m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: Iâ€™m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.”
“Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.”
“Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.”
“Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.”
“Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, youâ€™ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.”
“The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.”
“In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.”
“Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality once again--a world of peace and justice, without death, disease, or conflict.”
“Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you canâ€™t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.”
“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.”

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