Quotes from Timothy Keller

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

It is because of the doctrine of judgment and hell that Jesus' proclamations of grace and love are so astounding.

It's a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.

Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

Living 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.

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.

The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.

I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of ?vila.....great stuff.