550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.

The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not ‘used’ the gospel in and on all parts of our life.

If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.