To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.
Timothy KellerJesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
Timothy KellerFaith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
Timothy KellerAt the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.
Timothy KellerIf our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
Timothy KellerChristianity 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.
Timothy Keller