Timothy J. Keller quote: "Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love."

Jesus Christ says, 'Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world ...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who d...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest f...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part o...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the de...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And s...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centere...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

What the heart most wants the mind finds reasonable, the emotions find valuable, and the will finds ...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Within this Christian vision of marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at ano...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. And whe...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cr...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have fail...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wro...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

The gospel of justifying faith means that while Christians are, in themselves still sinful and sinni...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. You...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by ei...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

But in Genesis we see God as a gardener, and in the New Testament we see him as a carpenter. No task...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Leisure is the condition of considering things in a celebrating spirit. . . . Leisure lives on af...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

What is the Christian understanding of work?. . . [It] is that work is not, primarily, a thing one...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for peo...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at th...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a d...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

In sharp contrast with our culture, the Bible teaches that the essence of marriage is a sacrificial ...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Sociologists argue that in contemporary Western society the marketplace has become so dominant that ...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

...We must say to ourselves something like this: 'Well, when Jesus looked down from the cross, he di...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

The reason that marriage is so painful and yet wonderful is because it is a reflection of the gospel...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

When over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and fl...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper ...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our fl...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

The problem is that contemporary people think life is all about finding happiness. We decide what co...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially “...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their fa...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturall...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religio...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

THE INCARNATION AND THE “UPSIDE-DOWN” ASPECT OF THE GOSPEL Because Jesus was the king who became...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Have you heard God's blessing in your inmost being? Are the words, "You are my beloved child, in who...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentiall...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

John Frame’s ‘tri-perspectivalism’ helps me understand Willow. The Willow Creek style churches...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same ...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature.
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Preaching is compelling to young secular adults not if preachers use video clips from their favorite...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant do...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... Fro...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right w...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) tha...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the cha...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural or...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

all human work (especially excellent work), done by all people, as a channel of God’s love for his...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER

I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is e...
TIMOTHY J. BARTIK

We should not go down the slippery slope of what other countries might do to terrorize detainees.
TIMOTHY J. ROEMER

has talked about well-intentioned reform but has not delivered it.
TIMOTHY J. ROEMER

We've had our first test, and we've failed miserably,
TIMOTHY J. ROEMER

Fs and Ds and incompletes aren't the American ideal and the American standard of excellence, not whe...
TIMOTHY J. ROEMER

The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a goo...
TIMOTHY WEST

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printe...
TIMOTHY NOAH

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lull...
TIMOTHY ZAHN

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things do...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultima...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an impor...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sight...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.
TIMOTHY LEARY

My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin p...
TIMOTHY SIMONS

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
TIMOTHY NOAH

While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and camer...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticate...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no resp...
TIMOTHY NOAH

For what end shall we be connected with men, of whom this is the character and conduct? Is it, that ...
TIMOTHY DWIGHT

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

To hide the key to your heart is to risk forgetting where you placed it.
TIMOTHY CHILDERS

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
TIMOTHY LUCE

What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes.
TIMOTHY VIRKKALA

The least-crowded channel for meeting high profile bloggers is in person. Email is the most difficul...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I shoul...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up wit...
TIMOTHY LEARY

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
TIMOTHY LEARY

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If A...
TIMOTHY LEARY

Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.
TIMOTHY FIRNSTAHL

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
TIMOTHY GALLWEY

Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who...
TIMOTHY DWIGHT

My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your ne...
TIMOTHY LEARY

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with...
TIMOTHY LEARY

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between d...
TIMOTHY BENTLEY

Science is all metaphor.
TIMOTHY LEARY

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humani...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death wh...
TIMOTHY JONES

An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they c...
TIMOTHY DEXTER

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
TIMOTHY LEARY

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function ...
TIMOTHY LEARY

When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sou...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 19...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes b...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and wa...
TIMOTHY DALTON

The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revil...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican admini...
TIMOTHY LEARY

Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potentia...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I ...
TIMOTHY LEARY

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. H...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Spec...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locatio...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with pap...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in time...
TIMOTHY DALTON

David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and...
TIMOTHY SIMONS

I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange a...
TIMOTHY DALTON

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some typ...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the ...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to p...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the wor...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
TIMOTHY NOAH

When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of c...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecu...
TIMOTHY WEST

Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to hi...
TIMOTHY WEST

The more books there are on shelves, the more will be sold. Once you get to the level of The Secret ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over ...
TIMOTHY GRIFFIN

There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
TIMOTHY NOAH

What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However ma...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite int...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, jus...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autono...
TIMOTHY NOAH

There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secret...
TIMOTHY WEST

There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. ...
TIMOTHY LEARY

You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourse...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

I can't get enough of 'Pulp Fiction.' I just love it; it still holds up. And it didn'...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that ...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE

Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal governmen...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional l...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recogni...
TIMOTHY FINDLEY

Still, even when false, legends can be most informative.
TIMOTHY ZAHN

Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientist...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests,...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call cent...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law an...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
TIMOTHY NOAH

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare ...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Frankli...
TIMOTHY NOAH

There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossov...
TIMOTHY SIMONS

Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. First...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security i...
TIMOTHY NOAH

The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent a...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but sev...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some s...
TIMOTHY NOAH

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical d...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
TIMOTHY LEARY

It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country aroun...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies t...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to govern...
TIMOTHY NOAH

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict tourin...
TIMOTHY WEST

As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three cu...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I...
TIMOTHY LEARY

In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased th...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain
TIMOTHY LEARY

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
TIMOTHY LEARY

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all cla...
TIMOTHY WEST

The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may...
TIMOTHY NOAH

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants o...
TIMOTHY MURPHY

Federal law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from owning a gun. Seems like kind of a good idea...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Not only was there a John Doe No. 2,
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

John Doe No. 2 .
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so tha...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

just keep your sense of humor and be yourself.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people b...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

I didn't say that ... but they didn't prove it.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH

The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congr...
TIMOTHY NOAH

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it ...
TIMOTHY NOAH

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER

I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would....
TIMOTHY HUTTON

The only time we got sugary cereal was when my mom went away for the weekend and she bought us Frost...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT

I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid....
TIMOTHY SIMONS

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing gre...
TIMOTHY NOAH

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
TIMOTHY WHITE

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS

World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
TIMOTHY FERRISS

I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's...
TIMOTHY SIMONS

The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not abo...
TIMOTHY NOAH

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

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Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

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