Quotes from Timothy Keller

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.

Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.

Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.

Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.

The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.