“Tremendous freedom comes when we can laugh at ourselves and whisper to him, "So! It's been you all along!" In some ways… — Timothy J. Keller Freedom Copy Share Image
“One of the signs that an object is functioning as an idol is that fear becomes one of the chief characteristics of… — Timothy J. Keller Fear Copy Share Image
“The history of the patriarchs is filled with such missteps and moral failures. How could these be our moral examples? The answer:… — Timothy J. Keller Bible Copy Share Image
“Not Christians. We don’t expect things in life to “work for good” of their own accord. When we find things working out… — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“There is a surprise here. The great apostle does not want to visit simply so he can encourage them. He will visit… — Timothy J. Keller 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
“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
“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
“The church of Jesus Christ is therefore like the ocean. It is enormous and diverse. Like the ocean there are warm and… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what… — Timothy J. Keller Book Copy Share Image
“Jesus’s miracles in particular were never magic tricks, designed only to impress and coerce. You never see him say something like: “See… — Timothy J. Keller Heal the world Copy Share Image
“I cannot live up to my parents’ standards – and that makes me feel terrible. I cannot live up to your standards… — Timothy J. Keller Parenting Copy Share Image
“Religion is not the place where the problem of man’s egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there that the ultimate battle… — Timothy J. Keller Egotism Copy Share Image
“At one level, the only reason you can know anything is because of God. God made your mind and your cognitive faculties.… — Timothy J. Keller Bible Copy Share Image
“When two Christians who fully understand this stand before the minister all decked out in their wedding finery, they realize they're not… — Timothy J. Keller Christianity 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
“the revival cycles in Judges become weaker and weaker as time goes on, while in Acts they grow wider and stronger. We… — Timothy J. Keller Revival Copy Share Image
“Without socially shared discovered meaning we have no basis for saying to somebody else: “You need to stop doing that!” Created meanings… — Timothy J. Keller Justice Copy Share Image
“The same year that Dawkins’s The God Delusion was published, Francis Collins published The Language of God. Collins is an eminent research… — Timothy J. Keller God delusion 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
“Could you explain to someone else how the gospel can (and should) transform our sense of identity? How much do you experience… — Timothy J. Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“We humans may say, “Let there be light in this room,” but then we have to flick a switch or light a… — Timothy J. Keller Bible Copy Share Image
“The family is no longer what Christopher Lasch once called a “haven in a heartless world,” a counterbalance to the dog-eat-dog areas… — Timothy J. Keller Family Copy Share Image
“But second, this truth removes general fear and anxiety when life “goes wrong.” We know it hasn’t gone wrong at all! If… — Timothy J. Keller Accidents Copy Share Image
“If believers in God don't honor the cries and claims of the poor, we don't honor him, whatever we profess, because we… — Timothy J. Keller Beauty Copy Share Image
“Though most spiritual seekers start their search afraid of disappointment, Jesus says that he will always be infinitely more than anyone is… — Timothy J. Keller Expectations Copy Share Image
“Verse 11 teaches us to use whatever gifts the Lord has graciously given us to make others stronger in their faith. Verse… — Timothy J. Keller Faith 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
