Quotes from Timothy Keller

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ's name.

When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.

Religious people find God useful. Gospel people find him beautiful.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.

Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate 'Job,' the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

Because we put ourselves in God's place, He put Himself in our place.

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.

Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.