Timothy J. Keller Quotes
Top 50 wise famous quotes and sayings by Timothy J. Keller
Timothy J. Keller Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There are many goods that God will not give us unless we honor him and make our hearts safe to receive them through prayer.
Augustine writes: "We love God, therefore, for what He is in Himself, and [we love] ourselves and our neighbors for His sake." That
All the seemingly loose threads and contradictory claims of the rest of the Bible come together in Jesus.
But this is an impossibility.23 You cannot get an identity through self-recognition; it must come in a great measure from others.
Sin can harden our hearts so we lose everything, but suffering, if handled rightly, can make us wiser, happier, and deeper.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.
We must not decide how to pray based on what types of prayer are the most effective for producing the experiences and feelings we want.
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
This is one of God's great purposes in marriage: to picture the relationship between Christ and His redeemed people forever!
As John Newton said, if we are not getting much out of going to God in prayer, we will certainly get nothing out of staying away.
Only if your God can say things that upset you will you know you have a real God and not just a creation of your imagination. So
In the end faith always moves beyond mental assent and duty and will involve the whole self - mind, will, and emotions. Why
the city is humanity intensified - a magnifying glass that brings out the very best and worst of human nature
the abuse of the subjective in some circles cannot exclude the 'mystical' and emotional dimensions of Christian experience.
How can I lose my attraction to the most beautiful face in the universe? Revive my soul and reopen my eyes to your glory and grace. Amen.
The true god of your heart is what your thoughts effortlessly go to when there is nothing else demanding your attention.
Christians have their attitude toward God changed from one of duty to free, loving self-giving because of what Jesus did for us on the cross.
But Christianity is not just for the strong; it's for everyone, especially for people who admit that, where it really counts, they're weak.
Another reason for the primacy of praise is that it has such power to heal what is wrong with us and create inner spiritual health.
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.
Hope comes not in the solution to the problem but in focusing on Christ, who facilitates the change.
Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace.
John Stott concludes, "It seems to have been Paul's deliberate policy to move purposefully from one strategic city-centre to the next."5
The Psalms are the prayer book of the Bible, but it is noteworthy that the first Psalm is not a prayer per se but a meditation - in
Gilligan argued that while men seek maturity by detaching themselves, women see themselves maturing as they attach.18
The Gospel, because it is a true story, means all the best stories will be proved, in the ultimate sense, true. THE
OVERCONFIDENCE. We often stroll through life, thinking everything will be fine, until suddenly it isn't.