Quotes from Timothy Keller
Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?
- Timothy Keller
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.
- Timothy Keller
Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties
- Timothy Keller
If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
- Timothy Keller
God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.
- Timothy Keller
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
- Timothy Keller
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .
- Timothy Keller
Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.
- Timothy Keller
Prayer turns theology into experience.
- Timothy Keller
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
- Timothy Keller
Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
- Timothy Keller
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
- Timothy Keller