When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.
Timothy KellerThe early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.
Timothy KellerYou are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
Timothy KellerThe future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.
Timothy Keller