Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not. — 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
