Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
Timothy KellerIf the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.
Timothy KellerAny person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross
Timothy KellerJesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.
Timothy KellerThe targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.
Timothy Keller