Timothy Keller may refer to:
We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.
The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.
There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.
To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.
Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.
In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.
In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.
Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God. " But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.
The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.