Quote

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

Timothy Keller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Timothy Keller
Always
Reorder
Love
Disordered
Supremely
Breakdown
Leads
Misery
Loves
Way

More quotes by Timothy Keller

Image
True citizens of the heavenly city are the best residents of the earthly city.
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
I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.
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
Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.
Timothy Keller
Image
Jesus Christ doesn’t just give us truths he is the truth. Jesus Christ is the prophet to end all prophets. He gives us hard-copy words from God, truths on which we can build our lives, truths we have to submit to, truths we have to obey, and truths we have to build our lives on, but he himself is the truth.
Timothy Keller
Image
Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.
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
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
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
Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross
Timothy Keller
Image
The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.
Timothy Keller
Image
There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
Timothy Keller
Image
The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.
Timothy Keller
Image
If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.
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
We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.
Timothy Keller
Image
One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.
Timothy Keller
Image
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
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