We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
TIMOTHY KELLERWe were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely – and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.
TIMOTHY KELLERFaith is not primarily a function of how you feel.
TIMOTHY KELLERJesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
TIMOTHY KELLERTrust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.
TIMOTHY KELLERLove without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
TIMOTHY KELLERThere are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
TIMOTHY KELLERTolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
TIMOTHY KELLERThose who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
TIMOTHY KELLERReligion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’
TIMOTHY KELLERYet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
TIMOTHY KELLERThe purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
TIMOTHY KELLERIt’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
TIMOTHY KELLER