Timothy Keller Quotes About Trust In God
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If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.
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Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
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Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.
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Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.
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Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.
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Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
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When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.
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Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
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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.
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