Timothy Keller Quotes
A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.
God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.
The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.
Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.
To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.
While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.
The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.
God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.
Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.
We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.
Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.
Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.
In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.
We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?
Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.
No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.
The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.
Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him.
When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.
Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.
The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He rose from the dead.
The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.
The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.
A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.
Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.