“Western secularity is not the absence of faith but a new set of beliefs about the universe.72” — Timothy J. Keller Beliefs Copy Share Image
“This shows us that “the good” God always is working for us is character change. He is making us as loving, noble,… — Timothy J. Keller Change Copy Share Image
“Put most simply, the gospel is an announcement—a declaration. The gospel is not advice to be followed; it is news, good (eu)… — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“Externalities are to do with our doing; internalities have to do with our being; and Christianity is about who I am in… — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“This is the future—fulfilling, renewing, joy-giving—that creation can look forward to because it is the future that God’s children are looking forward… — Timothy J. Keller Children Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the gospel is offensive because the cross stands against all schemes of self-salvation.” — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“As future citizens of heaven, Christians must see and avoid the idolatries and injustices of their culture, even as they continue to… — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“Theodoret, a Syrian bishop in the fifth century, likened the gospel to a pepper: “A pepper outwardly seems to be cold …” — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“Evolution, therefore, cannot account for the origin of our moral feelings, let alone for the fact that we all believe there are… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“Notice that Paul says that the gospel’s power is boundless and boundaried at the same time. He says it is to everyone.… — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“Think of the implication of the very term “regressive.” To reject the Bible as regressive is to assume that you have now… — Timothy J. Keller Bible Copy Share Image
“The choice is ours. If we want to be sure to experience this vision by sight hereafter, we must know it by… — Timothy J. Keller Choice Copy Share Image
“Sit for thirty minutes and write down at least thirty things you learn from Mark 1:17,” which reads, “‘Come, follow me,’ Jesus… — Timothy J. Keller Follow Jesus Copy Share Image
“Sin can only grow in the soil of self-pity and a feeling of “owed-ness.” I’m not getting a fair shake! I’m not… — Timothy J. Keller Hard life Copy Share Image
“The Swiss theologian John Calvin, in his commentaries on the Hebrew prophets, says that God so identifies with the poor that their… — Timothy J. Keller Bible Copy Share Image
“Moralistic behavior change simply manipulates and leverages radical selfishness without challenging it. It tries to use that selfishness against itself by appealing… — Timothy J. Keller Behavior change Copy Share Image
“Jesus’s example and grace heals our will to power. The normal response to our sense of powerlessness is to deny it, to… — Timothy J. Keller Lust for power Copy Share Image
“It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The… — Timothy J. Keller Children Copy Share Image
“Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people… — Timothy J. Keller Idolatry Copy Share Image
“The spiritual intense fixation of the mind, by contemplation on God in Christ, until the soul be as it were swallowed up… — Timothy J. Keller Contemplation Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular opinion, then, Christianity is not a Western religion that destroys local cultures. Rather, Christianity has taken more culturally diverse… — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“The gospel does not say, “the good are in and the bad are out,” nor “the open-minded are in and the judgmental… — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances. It… — Timothy J. Keller Change Copy Share Image
“They rout the inhabitants, and capture and kill Adoni-Bezek (“the Lord of Bezek”), who recognizes the rightness of this judgment on him… — Timothy J. Keller God Copy Share Image
“Obedience flows out of faith; it is a consequence of saving faith, not a second condition for salvation.” — Timothy J. Keller Faith Copy Share Image
“Let the knowledge of your grace make me never less but only more intensely devoted to obeying you.” — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“The “Spirit of sonship” that Paul speaks of is, therefore, an ability that the Holy Spirit gives us to approach God as… — Timothy J. Keller Holy spirit Copy Share Image
“The lesson is that the medium is not the message, that we must not ignore uncomfortable truths just because they come through… — Timothy J. Keller Truth Copy Share Image
“The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“All that is required to know this salvation is belief: it is offered to “everyone who believes” (v 16).” — Timothy J. Keller Belief Copy Share Image
“The gospel’s power is seen in its ability to completely change minds, hearts, life orientation, our understanding of everything” — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“Christian living is therefore a continual realignment process—one of bringing everything in line with the truth of the gospel.” — Timothy J. Keller Christian living Copy Share Image
“the illusion that if we find our one true soul mate, everything wrong with us will be healed; but that makes the… — Timothy J. Keller Lover Copy Share Image
“It is easy to overlook the fact that the promise that “in all things God works for the good” is made only… — Timothy J. Keller Promise Copy Share Image
“The remedy is to read, re-read, deeply ponder and learn to live out of the truths of verses 18-30!” — Timothy J. Keller Poetry Copy Share Image
“The law has the power to show us that we are not righteous; but it cannot give us the power to be… — Timothy J. Keller Laws Copy Share Image
“Proper contextualization means causing the right scandal — the one the gospel poses to all sinners — and removing all unnecessary ones.” — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“When we set our hearts on power, we become hardened predators. We become like what we worship.94” — Timothy J. Keller Predators Copy Share Image
“Paul is saying that sin can only be cut off at the root if we expose ourselves constantly to the unimaginable love… — Timothy J. Keller Love Copy Share Image
“Individuals are now “spiritual consumers” who will go to a church only if (and as long as) its worship and public speaking… — Timothy J. Keller Prayer Copy Share Image
