Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What you treasure will ultimately require you die for it, Jesus is the only treasure that died for you. — 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
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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
Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die. — 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
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
You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what. — 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
“Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Revival occurs when those who think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it. — 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
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
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
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
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love. — 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
The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world. — 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
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
Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose. — 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
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens. — 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
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
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
“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
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
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