Quotes from Timothy Keller

Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.

If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere

If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?

When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

I am God and I am coming to find you.

Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.

If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.

Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.

God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.