Timothy Keller Quotes
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.
The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.
On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.
If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.
Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.
The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.
Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.
We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.
The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.
If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.
If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.
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.
God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.
Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.
Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.
Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.
We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.
God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.
We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.
The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.
To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.
Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.
I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'
Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too.