Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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 Image
The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He… — 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
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be. — 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
Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances. — 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
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love. — 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
God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom. — 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
The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who… — 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
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