Timothy Keller may refer to:
The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God.
Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.
Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.
Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.
[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.
God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.
The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.
I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.
At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.
Prayer turns theology into experience.
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.
The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive
Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.