Timothy Keller
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.Collection: Needs
In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.Collection: Christian
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.Collection: Character
Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.Collection: Christian
If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhereCollection: Real
If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?Collection: Picks
It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.Collection: Mistake
When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.Collection: Justice
To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.Collection: Jesus
Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.Collection: Air
The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.Collection: Catholic
I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tearsCollection: Sad
Every other religion points to answers. Jesus, though, says 'I am the answer'.Collection: Jesus
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.Collection: Prayer
Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.Collection: Christ
Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.Collection: Good Life
If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: God
The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Giving
The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.Collection: Heart
The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.Collection: Believe
In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.Collection: God
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.Collection: Love
While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener.Collection: Lying
The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceiveCollection: Bears
The image of God carries with it the right not to be mistreated or harmed.... Regardless of their record or character, all human beings have an irreducible glory and significance to them, because God loves them.... So we must treasure each and every human being as a way of showing due respect for the majesty of their owner and Creator.Collection: Character
We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?Collection: Prayer
The resurrection of the body means that we do not merely receive a consolation for the life we have lost but a restoration of it. We not only get the bodies and lives we had but the bodies and lives we wished for but had never before received.Collection: Mean
To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.Collection: Christian
The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?Collection: Long
Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.Collection: Humility
While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.Collection: Giving
The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.Collection: Earth
The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.Collection: Idols
If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.Collection: Children
It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.Collection: Important
God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.Collection: Hate
Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.Collection: Jesus
A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.Collection: Common Vision
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.Collection: God
All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.Collection: Christian
The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.Collection: Christian
Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.Collection: Prayer
Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Heart
Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.Collection: Prayer
Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.Collection: Jesus