If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
TIMOTHY KELLERIf the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
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The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
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Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him.
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When we worry we are saying, ‘I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God’s not getting it right’.
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After creation God said, ‘It is finished’-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, ‘It is finished’-and we can rest.
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Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
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The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Men, you’ll never be a good groom to your wife unless you’re first a good bride to Jesus.
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If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?
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It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
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Jesus warns people far more often about greed than about sex, yet almost no one thinks they are guilty of it.
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Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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