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Timothy Keller Quotes - Page 19

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Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

Love, Marriage, Wedding

While the difference between a bad sermon and a good sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between good preaching and great preaching lies mainly in the work of the Holy Spirit. . . . We should do the work it takes to make our communication good and leave it up to God how and how often he makes it great for the listener.

Lying, Communication, Responsibility

Timothy Keller (2015). “Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism”, p.11, Penguin

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

Prayer, Delay, Instagram

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

Mean, Loss, Forgiving

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.56, Penguin

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

Law, May, Self Centered

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.14, Penguin

We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

Thinking, Idols, Things In Life

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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

Imagine, Raised, Higher

If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?

Community, Missing, Church

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?

Believe, Doe, World

Source: visionroom.com

The image of God carries with it the right not to be mistreated or harmed.... Regardless of their record or character, all human beings have an irreducible glory and significance to them, because God loves them.... So we must treasure each and every human being as a way of showing due respect for the majesty of their owner and Creator.

Character, Records, Treasure

Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.57, Penguin

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

Important, Hunters, Culture

When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.

Brother, Humble, Needs

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

Prayer, Joy, Entering

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.47, Penguin

Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him.

"The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith".

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

Pride, Trying, Use

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.

Christian, Country, Art

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.

Jesus, Philosophical, Giving Love

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.30, Penguin

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

Idols, Good Things, Made

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

Discovery, Self, Ironic

A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

Prayer, Doe, Way

Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.20, Penguin

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

Church, Doe, Should

Timothy Keller (2012). “Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.515, Zondervan

Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

Jesus, Father, Son

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

Evil, Church, Care

The Cross is not simply a lovely example of sacrificial love. Throwing your life away needlessly is not admirable — it is wrong. Jesus’ death was only a good example if it was more than an example, if it was something absolutely necessary to rescue us. And it was. Why did Jesus have to die in order to forgive us? There was a debt to be paid — God himself paid it. There was a penalty to be born — God himself bore it. Forgiveness is always a form of costly suffering.

Jesus, Order, Lovely

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