Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
Timothy KellerOur prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.
Timothy KellerDisordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.
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