All TIMOTHY KELLER Quotes about “Christianity”

“Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair”
“Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross”
“Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.”
“In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.”
“Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we always wanted but never achieved. And because the joy will be even greater for all that evil, this means the final defeat of all those forces that would have destroyed the purpose of God in creation, namely, to live with his people in glory and delight forever.”
“I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.”
“The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.”
“The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.”
“Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.”
“Christianity is not just for the strong; it's for everyone.”
“While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of lifeâ€™s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this worldâ€™s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.”
“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.”
“I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.”
“This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and youâ€™ll experience blessing now).”
“If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.”
“While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. 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.”
“One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.”
“Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.”
“Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.”

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