Timothy Keller may refer to:
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.
The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.
Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.
Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.
Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.
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.
The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive
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.
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.
It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.
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.
Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.
The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.
If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.
You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.
Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.
Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
Living is giving. . . . If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.