Quote

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

Timothy Keller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Timothy Keller
People
Personality
Shaped
Influence
Mainly
Study
Primaries
Community
Primary
Social
Individuality
Character
Shapes
Persons
Eating
Converse
Play
Conversation
Converses

More quotes by Timothy Keller

Image
What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.
Timothy Keller
Image
We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
Timothy Keller
Image
Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.
Timothy Keller
Image
Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
Timothy Keller
Image
If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.
Timothy Keller
Image
It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.
Timothy Keller
Image
Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.
Timothy Keller
Image
I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.
Timothy Keller
Image
To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.
Timothy Keller
Image
Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
Timothy Keller
Image
Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.
Timothy Keller
Image
We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
Timothy Keller
Image
Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.
Timothy Keller
Image
When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.
Timothy Keller
Image
There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
Timothy Keller
Image
The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.
Timothy Keller
Image
If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.
Timothy Keller
Image
God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.
Timothy Keller
Image
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.
Timothy Keller
Image
To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.
Timothy Keller