Quote

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

Timothy Keller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Timothy Keller
Comfort
Interest
Else
Someone
Important
Needs
Love
Counting
Interests

More quotes by Timothy Keller

Image
If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.
Timothy Keller
Image
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.
Timothy Keller
Image
The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.
Timothy Keller
Image
If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.
Timothy Keller
Image
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
Timothy Keller
Image
How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?
Timothy Keller
Image
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
Timothy Keller
Image
Religion says, 'I obey therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.
Timothy Keller
Image
The Bible judges the church the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church the church is not the foundation for or creator of the Bible. The church and its hierarchy must be evaluated by the believer with the biblical gospel as the touchstone or plumb line for judging all truth claims.
Timothy Keller
Image
[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.
Timothy Keller
Image
Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith.
Timothy Keller
Image
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
Timothy Keller
Image
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
Timothy Keller
Image
Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
Timothy Keller
Image
The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
Timothy Keller
Image
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.
Timothy Keller
Image
The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.
Timothy Keller
Image
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
Timothy Keller
Image
The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.
Timothy Keller
Image
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
Timothy Keller