Timothy Keller
You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.Collection: Needs
Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.Collection: Heart
One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.Collection: Bible
Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.Collection: God
All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. Some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them.Collection: Heart
When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.Collection: Jesus
The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.Collection: Perfect
Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.Collection: Jesus
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.Collection: If There Is A God
It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.Collection: Jesus
Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beautiesCollection: Giving
The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.Collection: Football
Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.Collection: Names
If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.Collection: Teacher
Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.Collection: Justice
Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.Collection: Christian
Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.Collection: Jesus
Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.Collection: Cutting
The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.Collection: World
Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.Collection: Mean
The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.Collection: Pressure
True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.Collection: Cities
To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.Collection: Religious
I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God." But that's answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can't avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.Collection: Christian
As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.Collection: Thinking
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.Collection: Love Is
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.Collection: Jesus
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.Collection: Heart
It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.Collection: Jesus
The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.Collection: Advice
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.Collection: Friendship
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.Collection: People
The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.Collection: Behavior
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.Collection: Wise
Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.Collection: Adversity
No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.Collection: People
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.Collection: Justice
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.Collection: Jesus
Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.Collection: Prayer
After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.Collection: Jesus
Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'Collection: Identity
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.Collection: God
The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.Collection: Looks
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.Collection: Self
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.Collection: Forgiving
If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.Collection: Crush
People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness.Collection: People
You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.Collection: Fall
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.Collection: Forgiving