Timothy Keller

Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.

Easter means that Christmas worked.

The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.

A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

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

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.

We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

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

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself