Timothy Keller Quotes

581 quotes · Pastor, Author

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Timothy Keller Quotes

All Spiritual Hopeful Love Philosophical Confident 581 quotes · page 27 of 49

Pastor, Author

Sad

“Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.”

Art Country Christian

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Timothy Keller

Pastor, Author

Philosophical

“When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.”

Trying Use Pride

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Sad

“Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.”

Christian Pain

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Spiritual

“When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.”

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Hopeful

“The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.”

Needs Brother Humble

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Wise

“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.”

Important Culture Hunters

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Grateful

“Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.”

Giving Needs

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Rebellious

“Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God”

Law May

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Spiritual

“We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?”

Prayer Delay Instagram

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Hopeful

“Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine.”

Imagine Higher Raised

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Sad

“If you and your church were to disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow, would anyone in the community around you notice you were gone? And if the community did even notice would they say 'we are really glad they are gone', or 'we are really going to miss them'?”

Community Church Missing

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Philosophical

“We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.”

Thinking Idols Things In Life

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