Timothy Keller Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

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

  Timothy Keller

  Friendship, Running, Commitment

• Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Community, And Love

• Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

  Timothy Keller

  Character, Play, People

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.651, Zondervan

• There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.

  Timothy Keller

  Inspirational, Hands, People

• The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Community, Church

  Timothy Keller (2017). “Ministries of Mercy: Learning To Care Like Jesus”, p.185, SPCK

• An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Mistake, Book

• Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Character, Men

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.23, Penguin

• Covenant community is like air. We don't miss it until we need it.

  Timothy Keller

  Air, Community, Missing

• 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'?

  Timothy Keller

  Community, Missing, Church

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