The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.
Timothy KellerTo fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.
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 KellerLiving is giving....If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if you want to really live - give.
Timothy KellerWe are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
Timothy KellerJesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.
Timothy Keller