The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What you treasure will ultimately require you die for it, Jesus is the only treasure that died for you. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“the Bible’s solution to a bad marriage is a reorientation to the radical, spousal love of Christ communicated in the gospel. “You… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When you feel great delight in someone, meeting their needs and getting their gratitude and affection in return is extremely rewarding to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and flaws, yet commits… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“In sharp contrast with our culture, the Bible teaches that the essence of marriage is a sacrificial commitment to the good of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don't really want it at all, though perhaps they can't admit… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And when that happens you must… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Ultimate reality is a community of persons who know and love one another. That is what the universe, God, history, and life… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“Evangelism will come organically in friendship if we don’t let our pride, fears, and pessimism cause us to hide our faith and heart.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“The coming of the messianic King occurs in two stages. At his first coming, he saved us from the penalty of sin and gave… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“24 A few pages later, Delbanco writes the following: [Alexis de] Tocqueville’s detection of a “strange melancholy in the midst of abundance” has a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“of temple, presence, and sacrifice; of covenant and faithfulness; of kingdom and victory. When we seek to communicate the gospel to a particular culture,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“Finally, you are ready to launch your church. Begin by developing action steps and goals that can be used as benchmarks to track your… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves. — Timothy Keller Copy Share