Timothy Keller
[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.Collection: Views
If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.Collection: Forever
It seems almost oxymoronic to believe that this new idealism has led to a new pessimism about marriage, but that is exactly what has happened. In generations past there was far less talk about "compatibility" and finding the ideal soul mate. Today we are looking for someone who accepts us as we are and fulfills our desires, and this creates an unrealistic set of expectations that frustrates both the searchers and the searched for.Collection: Believe
Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.Collection: Giving
A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.Collection: Wrath
We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.Collection: Fighting
In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite.Collection: Children
The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.Collection: Christian
The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.Collection: Differences
Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths; he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.Collection: Jesus
Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and trusts, and therefore it is the control center of the whole life. So to preach to the heart means to go right for the commanding commitments of people's lives that drive their desires, thinking, feeling, and action.Collection: Heart
The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.Collection: Kings
How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?Collection: Powerful
Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.Collection: Jesus
It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding.Collection: Philosophical
The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.Collection: Sorrow
If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.Collection: Done
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?Collection: Strong
Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about itCollection: Evangelism
Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itselfCollection: Doctrine
To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.Collection: Heart
In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture.Collection: Christian
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.Collection: Fit
We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.Collection: Justice
The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.Collection: Two
Christianity is not just for the strong; it's for everyone.Collection: Strong
We can only grasp the gospel’s sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can’t save yourself.Collection: Firsts
Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.”Collection: Real
It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.Collection: Real
If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that’s your real king.Collection: Real
I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun’s gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.Collection: Book
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 somewhere.Collection: Real
The human race doesn’t need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.Collection: Book
It’s important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.Collection: Stories
If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs – you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.Collection: Firsts
One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: ‘I’m not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I’ve read by a Christian that didn’t treat me like I was an idiot.’Collection: Firsts
Christianity is not just for the strong; it’s for everyone.Collection: Strong