Timothy Keller may refer to:
If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.
Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.
It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.
When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.
It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.
We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?
If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.
I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.
Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.
Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.
But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.
We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream.
We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.
The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.
The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.