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Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine. — Timothy Keller

Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another. — Timothy Keller

The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change. — Timothy Keller

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another. — Timothy Keller

Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly. — Timothy Keller

The essence of Christian obedience is not do's and don'ts but personal allegiance to Jesus. — Timothy Keller

No one church model or theological tradition - can reach an entire city. Reaching — Timothy Keller

In cities you have more image of God per square inch than anywhere else on Earth. — Timothy Keller

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that Paul says you can't understand marriage without looking at the gospel. — Timothy Keller

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives. — Timothy Keller

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he's what you need. — Timothy Keller

True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city. — Timothy Keller

Suffering is unbearable if you aren't certain that God is for you and with you. — Timothy Keller

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption . — Timothy Keller

The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ. — Timothy Keller

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things. — Timothy Keller

According to Paul in Romans 2, the conscience is like a radio receiver picking up transmissions from that seat of justice. — Timothy Keller

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either. — Timothy Keller

We are wired to move through our lives chasing and rehearsing narratives that will promise to bring the world back into balance. — Timothy Keller

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. — Timothy Keller

The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism. — Timothy J. Keller

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart. — Timothy Keller

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever. — Timothy Keller

Our greatest motive for surrendering to him cannot be for what he will do in us. It must be to love him for what he did for us. In — Timothy J. Keller

In the end faith always moves beyond mental assent and duty and will involve the whole self - mind, will, and emotions. Why — Timothy J. Keller

The world can't save itself. That's the message of Christmas. — Timothy Keller

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it. — Timothy Keller

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation. — Timothy Keller

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd. — Timothy Keller

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it. — Timothy Keller

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus. — Timothy Keller

All work, according to God's design, is service. — Timothy J. Keller

Hope comes not in the solution to the problem but in focusing on Christ, who facilitates the change. — Timothy J. Keller

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were. — Timothy Keller

All life-changing love is inconvenient. — Timothy Keller

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love. — Timothy Keller

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. — Timothy J. Keller

Identity apart from God is inherently unstable. — Timothy J. Keller

If God is not at the center of your life, something else is. — Timothy Keller

The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved. — Timothy Keller

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful. — Timothy Keller

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think. — Timothy Keller

We know God will answer us when we call because one terrible day he did not answer Jesus when he called. — Timothy Keller

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible. — Timothy Keller

It's a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it. — Timothy Keller

The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died. — Timothy Keller

The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission. — Timothy Keller

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study. — Timothy Keller

I am God and I am coming to find you. — Timothy Keller

Job 28 is a magnificent poem that engages the modern technology narrative head-on. — Timothy J. Keller

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story. — Timothy Keller

Then, as now, the cities were filled with the poor, and urban Christians' commitment to the poor was visible and striking. — Timothy Keller

Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world. — Timothy Keller

John Stott concludes, "It seems to have been Paul's deliberate policy to move purposefully from one strategic city-centre to the next."5 — Timothy J. Keller

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts ... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them. — Timothy Keller

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost. — Timothy Keller

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. — Timothy Keller

the natural condition of the human ego: that it is empty, painful, busy and fragile. — Timothy J. Keller

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor. — Timothy Keller

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives. — Timothy Keller

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage. — Timothy Keller

Self-righteousness is always self-condemnatory. And self-righteousness is the preserve of the moralist. — Timothy Keller

Easter means that Christmas worked. — Timothy Keller

Only Jesus says, "I have come for the weak. I have come for those who admit they are weak. I will save them not by what they do but through what I do. — Timothy J. Keller

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints. — Timothy Keller

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel. — Timothy Keller

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment. — Timothy Keller

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering? — Timothy Keller

There is no sin that is a match for God's grace. — Timothy Keller

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you. — Timothy Keller

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us. — Timothy Keller

No suffering is for nothing. — Timothy Keller

The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus. — Timothy Keller

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 — Timothy Keller

The "good deeds" done outside trusting the gospel will make a soul go sour. — Timothy Keller

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances. — Timothy Keller

Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own. — Timothy Keller

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift. — Timothy Keller

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me. — Timothy Keller

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love. — Timothy Keller

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know. — Timothy Keller

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's. — Timothy Keller

You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule. — Timothy Keller

One thing have I desired of the Lord, one thing will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord to behold the beauty of the Lord. — Timothy Keller

Each genre and part of the Old Testament looks toward Christ and informs us about who he is in some way that the others do not. — Timothy Keller

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey. — Timothy Keller

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you. — Timothy Keller

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring. — Timothy Keller

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself. — Timothy Keller

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. — Timothy Keller

Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives. — Timothy Keller

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity. — Timothy Keller

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations. — Timothy Keller

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us. — Timothy Keller

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart." — Timothy Keller

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity. — Timothy Keller

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about. — Timothy Keller

Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey. — Timothy Keller

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties — Timothy Keller

Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it. — Timothy Keller