Quote

All I know is, if I don't care about the poor, if my church doesn't care about the poor, that's evil.

Timothy Keller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Timothy Keller
Care
Poor
Church
Evil
Doesn

More quotes by Timothy Keller

Image
Prayer turns theology into experience.
Timothy Keller
Image
God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.
Timothy Keller
Image
The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.
Timothy Keller
Image
Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.
Timothy Keller
Image
The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.
Timothy Keller
Image
Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.
Timothy Keller
Image
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?
Timothy Keller
Image
Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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
We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.
Timothy Keller
Image
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
Timothy Keller
Image
The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
Timothy Keller
Image
The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
Timothy Keller
Image
The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
Timothy Keller
Image
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.
Timothy Keller
Image
The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
Timothy Keller
Image
When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
Timothy Keller
Image
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
Timothy Keller