If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.
Timothy KellerGod takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.
Timothy KellerChristmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.
Timothy KellerThe basic premise of religionโ that if you live a good life, things will go well for youโ is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
Timothy KellerThe 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.
Timothy Keller