Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely. — 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
A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for… — 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
“God’s love and mercy (like liberal preachers). Only when people see God as absolutely holy and absolutely loving will the cross of… — 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
While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“all human work (especially excellent work), done by all people, as a channel of God’s love for his world. They will be… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of… — 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 image of God carries with it the right not to be mistreated or harmed… Regardless of their record or character, all… — 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 Image
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image