Timothy Keller Quotes About Pain

We have collected for you the TOP of Timothy Keller's best quotes about Pain! Here are collected all the quotes about Pain starting from the birthday of the Author – 1950! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 20 sayings of Timothy Keller about Pain. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • 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.

    God   Jesus   Pain  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.123, Penguin
  • 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.

    God   Pain   Mean  
    "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".
  • But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

    God   Pain   Joy  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.47, Penguin
  • Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

    God   Religious   Pain  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.46, Penguin
  • When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.13, Penguin
  • No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.

    God   Pain   Good Life  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.12, Penguin
  • 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.

    Karma   God   Meaningful  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin
  • 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

    Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.46, Penguin
  • While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.

    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin
  • The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

    Pain   Essence   Giving  
  • The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

    Love   Death   God  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.304, Penguin
  • In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

    God   Meaningful   Pain  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.26, Penguin
  • Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

    God   Christian   Pain  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.58, Penguin
  • The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

    God   Jesus   Jobs  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.93, Penguin
  • 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.

    God   Pain   Ocean  
  • It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

    God   Art   Prayer  
    "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".
  • Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom.

    God   Pain   Past  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.40, Penguin
  • 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.

    God   Pain   Grief  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.38, Penguin
  • Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

    God   Jesus   Jobs  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.197, Penguin
  • 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.

    God   Baby   Jesus  
    Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.190, Penguin
Page 1 of 1
Did you find Timothy Keller's interesting saying about Pain? We will be glad if you share the quote with your friends on social networks! This page contains Author quotes from Author Timothy Keller about Pain collected since 1950! Come back to us again – we are constantly replenishing our collection of quotes so that you can always find inspiration by reading a quote from one or another author!