550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.

You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

We’ve got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation – the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.

If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.