Timothy Keller may refer to:
We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.
Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us. . . He laid aside the infinities and immensities of His being and, at the cost of His life, paid the debt for our sins, purchasing us the only place our hearts can rest, in His Father's house. Knowing He did this will transform us from the inside out.
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God.
In cities you have more image of God per square inch than anywhere else on Earth.
If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.
Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.
Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.
Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.
Within this Christian vision of marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of what God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I want to be part of that. I want to partner with you and God in the journey you are taking to his throne. And when we get there, I will look at your magnificence and say, 'I always knew you could be like this. I got glimpses of it on earth, but now look at you!
Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.
Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things
The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.
Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.
The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.
The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.
Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.