Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.
Timothy KellerSecularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.
Timothy KellerTruth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.
Timothy KellerIf God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.
Timothy KellerChristianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.
Timothy Keller