Quotes from Timothy Keller

Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

There is no evil that the father's love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.

Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

Love is primarily giving. It's an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.

Love is counting someone else's needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.

God loves you just because He loves you.

Public faith means going public with what's in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

All life-changing love is inconvenient.

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.