550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

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.

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.