Hope in Times of Fear Quotes

“God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“During the crisis many churches took their Sunday and other gatherings online, and to their surprise they often got many times more viewers than they had members. It meant that at least some people were “looking in” who previously had not thought they needed spiritual resources. What we all need in such frightening times is faith in the resurrection.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“This humility and willingness to give up control of your life is impossible to produce without God’s help.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“Jesus Christ saves the world through the Great Reversal.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“Peter is showing us what Paul in 2 Corinthians 7:10 calls “godly sorrow” and true repentance rather than “worldly sorrow.” The former heals, restores, and changes us permanently; the latter, while often accompanied by intense emotion, is a passing thing.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“Sometimes the ideas of the biblical text burst the banks of the intellect, as it were, and become like a light to see or like food to eat. The truths become as sweet and strengthening as a feast.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“And this hope is not wishful thinking but is grounded in history, the sign of which is the risen Christ.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“Fear of death can lead you either to a strident protestation of your freedom from safety precautions as a way to conquer your anxieties or else to a panicky capitulation to them. If the fear is conquered, however, it enables you to then ask the important question with more objectivity: What is the most loving thing for me to do in my circumstances? And then you can do it.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“No one seeks for God,” Paul wrote in Romans 3:10, meaning not that no one seeks for the divine and transcendent or for spirituality in general, but that no human being seeks the true God. We seek spirituality, but the human heart always wants a God who fits our desires, a God we can control, who doesn’t challenge our self-assessments and narratives.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“The glory of God coming to earth does not only produce radically changed individuals, but a whole new kind of human community—the church. Paul writes: “But our citizenship is in heaven” (Philippians 3:19–20). The word translated as “citizenship” is politeuma, a word that is better translated as “commonwealth” or “colony.” It means a politically organized body with both laws and loyalties that govern the behavior of its citizens. Literally it tells Christians that their politics—the way they conduct themselves in society—is to be based on the life of “heaven.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“The new self (Ephesians 4:22–23) that is rooted in Christ’s love and work rather in than our race, culture, and achievements is something that must be put on. Only then can it overcome the natural “hostility” between races (Ephesians 2:14). Paul would not be exhorting believers to put on the new self or to overcome racial hostility if this happened automatically to Christians.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“By this he does not mean any kind of theocratic take-over by the church. Rather, he says that when Christians make the love of their neighbor and the glory of God the highest aims in their work, then in the fields of “science . . . art . . . the state . . . [and] commerce and industry” more just and right relationships will be established. People will not advance at one another’s expense, by living for their own glory. Rather people will flourish through inter-dependence and love.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“As many contemporary thinkers have pointed out, when you create an identity by despising other groups, it makes you dependent in many ways on them. Ironically, the “other” becomes part of who you are. You need for them to stay in their place and to fit your stereotypes of them. And if something threatens your one-dimensional, negative view of them, it shakes your very foundations. This is what brought Cain to kill Abel, and why Peter responded violently as well. Their false identity was shaken, and rather than change it and give it another foundation, they lashed out at the people who were endangering it.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“By living this principle, death and resurrection, we renew human life here—only partially, but substantially.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“In summary, Gathercole says that the gospel is that, through the “death and resurrection” of “Jesus the Messiah . . . he atones for sin and brings new creation.”10”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“The implications of this are significant. If we overstress the “already” of the kingdom to the exclusion of the “not yet,” we will expect quick solutions to problems and we will be dismayed by suffering and tragedy. But we can likewise overstress the “not yet” of the kingdom to the exclusion of the “already.” We can be too pessimistic about personal change. We can withdraw from engaging the world, too afraid of being “polluted” by it.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter

“The fire of God’s glorious presence that Moses saw in the burning bush and that will renew the world at the end of time has come into us, as signified by the tongues of flame over the head of every disciple on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:3). Every Christian is now a small burning bush, a new creation, being made into Christ’s image, as we behold his glory by faith.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and the Meaning of Easter