The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness. — 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
The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life. — 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
Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that… — 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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