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
Poor
Church
Evil
Doesn
Care

More quotes by Timothy Keller

Image
Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.
Timothy Keller
Image
The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.
Timothy Keller
Image
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
Timothy Keller
Image
True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.
Timothy Keller
Image
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 Бvila.....great stuff.
Timothy Keller
Image
In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite.
Timothy Keller
Image
Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.
Timothy Keller
Image
The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?
Timothy Keller
Image
The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He ‪rose from the dead.
Timothy Keller
Image
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?
Timothy Keller
Image
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
Timothy Keller
Image
I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
Timothy Keller
Image
Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.
Timothy Keller
Image
Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.
Timothy Keller
Image
The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.
Timothy Keller
Image
Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.
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
We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.
Timothy Keller
Image
Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.
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