Timothy Keller
No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.Collection: Jesus
God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.Collection: Grace
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.Collection: Jesus
Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.Collection: Jesus
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.Collection: Trust
Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.Collection: Jesus
Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."Collection: Heartbreak
Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.Collection: Pride
How do you change your behavior? Change what you worshipCollection: Behavior Change
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.Collection: Prayer
The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of accessCollection: Kings
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.Collection: Good Life
Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.Collection: Accepting
The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.Collection: Love
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.Collection: God
The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.Collection: Christian
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?Collection: Son
If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.Collection: Ifs
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.Collection: Real
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.Collection: Life
There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.Collection: Inspirational
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.Collection: Christian
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.Collection: Advice
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.Collection: Grace
Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.Collection: Honor
Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.Collection: Prayer
Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.Collection: Jesus
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.Collection: Return
Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.Collection: Jesus
Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.Collection: Mean
If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.Collection: Kings
Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.Collection: Idols
All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.Collection: Evil
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.Collection: Christian
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.Collection: Identity
The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.Collection: Growing
You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.Collection: Jesus
It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.Collection: Spiritual
If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.Collection: Jesus
The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.Collection: Passion
By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Sympathy
Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.Collection: Jesus
Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.Collection: Jesus
The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.Collection: Jesus
Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.Collection: Promise
Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate thingsCollection: Good Things
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 .Collection: Father
The gospel is not just the A-B-C's but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.Collection: Progress