Timothy J. Keller Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.

Follow the pathway of the fear back into your heart to discover the things you love more than God.

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.

Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.

When you claim to have the truth, you are trying to get power and control over other people.

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.

When you see him dying to make you his treasure, that will make him yours.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

Created meaning is a less rational way to live life than doing so with discovered meaning.

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.

Identity apart from God is inherently unstable.

All work, according to God's design, is service.

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.

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

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

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

Now I know that you love me more than anything in the world." That's what "the fear of God" means.

The main problem in a person's life is never his suffering; it's his sin.

You have been saved through a dying sacrifice, so you are free to be a living one.

You are with Another, and he is unique. God is the only person from whom you can hide nothing.

Gifts are things we do, but spiritual fruit or graces are things we are

obviously different from everything that a nonbeliever does. That

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

Prepare the preacher more than you prepare the sermon.

Prayer, therefore, leads to a self-knowledge that is impossible to achieve any other way.

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.

Competency is a basic value. It is not a means to some other end, such as wealth or position, although such results may occur.