If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
Timothy KellerPower, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.
Timothy KellerTo say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.
Timothy KellerAll I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.
Timothy KellerThere is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and fragile. God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back... No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
Timothy Keller