Christians tend to motivate others with guilt. We tend to say: You would do this if you were really committed Christians, indicating… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail… — 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
If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He rose from the dead. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross. — 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
It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we… — 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
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
If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be… — 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… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself. — 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