Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, Iām accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: Iām fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.
Timothy KellerPrayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
Timothy KellerA genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?
Timothy Keller