Quote

The church does not simply have a missions department it should wholly exist to be a mission.

Timothy Keller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Timothy Keller
Simply
Church
Doe
Wholly
Mission
Missions
Department
Exist

More quotes by Timothy Keller

Image
Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.
Timothy Keller
Image
Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'
Timothy Keller
Image
Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?
Timothy Keller
Image
To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.
Timothy Keller
Image
Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
Timothy Keller
Image
We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.
Timothy Keller
Image
Christians should not be optimists we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
Timothy Keller
Image
Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.
Timothy Keller
Image
Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.
Timothy Keller
Image
Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.
Timothy Keller
Image
Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.
Timothy Keller
Image
When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.
Timothy Keller
Image
The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
Timothy Keller
Image
At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.
Timothy Keller
Image
No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.
Timothy Keller
Image
If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.
Timothy Keller
Image
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
Timothy Keller
Image
To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.
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
No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.
Timothy Keller