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Christian Quotes by Timothy Keller

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The gospel is called the A-to-Z of Christian life, and it is said that Jesus Christ is the strongest proof that God exists. Keller says a Christian needs friends, a believing family, and love for every neighbor, while warning that worshiping an ideal self misses the point and that work can show God's love.

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God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

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A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!

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Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

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The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.

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Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

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If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.

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Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

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Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.

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You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a…

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Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.

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Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

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It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

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The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and…

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To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

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The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

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...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they…

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“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long…

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Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really…

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One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I…

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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with…

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When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to…

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I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine,…

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Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and…

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Within this Christian vision of marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and…

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At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems…

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Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the…

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I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because…

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It is not accurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then, what matures Christians is trying hard to live…

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A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more…

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“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the…

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In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any…

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“Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way…

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“You either are a Christian or you are not — you either are united to him by faith or you are not…

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“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the…

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“So when we say that Christians work from a gospel worldview, it does not mean that they are constantly speaking about Christian…

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“There are now six times more Anglicans in Nigeria alone than there are in all of the United States. There are more…

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Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

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Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

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Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

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The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

“Evangelism will come organically in friendship if we don’t let our pride, fears, and pessimism cause us to hide our faith and heart.”

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“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…

If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then…

“of temple, presence, and sacrifice; of covenant and faithfulness; of kingdom and victory. When we seek to communicate the gospel to a particular culture,…

“Finally, you are ready to launch your church. Begin by developing action steps and goals that can be used as benchmarks to track your…

If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

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…

“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…

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

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.