Doe Quotes by Timothy Keller

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

— Timothy Keller

The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

— Timothy Keller

Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.

— Timothy Keller

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

— Timothy Keller

Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.

— Timothy Keller

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

— Timothy Keller

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

— Timothy Keller

How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.

— Timothy Keller

Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like…

— Timothy Keller

If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we…

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as…

— Timothy Keller

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who…

— Timothy Keller

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

— Timothy Keller

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He…

— Timothy Keller

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from…

— Timothy Keller

A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods…

— Timothy Keller

The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of…

— Timothy Keller

Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is…

— Timothy Keller

To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God…

— Timothy Keller

Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to…

— Timothy Keller

Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating…

— Timothy Keller

In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this,…

— Timothy Keller

It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us…

— Timothy Keller

Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').…

— Timothy Keller

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

— Timothy Keller