Timothy Keller
A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.Collection: Generosity
If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?Collection: Salvation
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.Collection: Funny
What you do in secret tells you who your God is.Collection: Secret
If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.Collection: Views
Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.Collection: Life Changing
The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.Collection: Past
If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.Collection: Jesus
While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.Collection: Blood
A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!Collection: Christian
Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.Collection: Friends
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.Collection: Grace
Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.Collection: Bible
Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.Collection: Jesus
If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.Collection: World
...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.Collection: Christian
We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.Collection: Judging
Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.Collection: Two
Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.Collection: Faith
God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.Collection: Suffering
We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' 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
Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.Collection: Salvation
You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment.Collection: Marriage
We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministryCollection: Jesus
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.Collection: Jesus
We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.Collection: Design
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.Collection: Jesus
Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently for himself alone and so discover the ultimate peace and freedom.Collection: God
You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.Collection: Christian
The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.Collection: Judging
Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.Collection: Baby
Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.Collection: Christ
God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.Collection: Christian
Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.Collection: Grace
Think like a prophet, serve like a priest, and plan like a king.Collection: Kings
Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us ... He laid aside the infinities and immensities of His being and, at the cost of His life, paid the debt for our sins, purchasing us the only place our hearts can rest, in His Father's house. Knowing He did this will transform us from the inside out.Collection: Jesus
The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.Collection: Way To Live
You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.Collection: Imagine
At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.Collection: Christian
A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.Collection: Gratitude
The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.Collection: Grace
Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.Collection: Prayer
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.Collection: Dust
There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.Collection: Grief
Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?Collection: Jesus
Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.Collection: Suffering
The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.Collection: People
Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.Collection: Idols
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.Collection: People