Timothy Keller
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.Collection: Sin
Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.Collection: Jesus
Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.Collection: Believe
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.Collection: Objects
When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.Collection: Jobs
In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.Collection: Mean
The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.Collection: Missing
Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.Collection: Mean
Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.Collection: Jesus
Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.Collection: Jesus
Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.Collection: Religious
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.Collection: Doe
When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.Collection: Jesus
God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.Collection: Invites
The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.Collection: Jesus
What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.Collection: Believe
If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.Collection: Idols
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.Collection: Relationship
The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus's tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.Collection: Jesus
We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.Collection: Grace
When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.Collection: Worry
I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.Collection: Jesus
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.Collection: Fire
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.Collection: God
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.Collection: Christian
Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.Collection: Men
The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.Collection: Two
A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.Collection: Christian
The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.Collection: Jesus
Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.Collection: Grace
Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.Collection: Christian
Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.Collection: People
Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.Collection: Hate
You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.Collection: World
Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.Collection: Sin
Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himselfCollection: Prayer
Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.Collection: Rip
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.Collection: Christian
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: Spiritual
Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.Collection: Firsts
What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.Collection: Heart
Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.Collection: Prayer
The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.Collection: Giving Up
Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.Collection: Jesus
Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.Collection: Jesus
Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.Collection: Jesus
The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.Collection: Biblical