Timothy Keller Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Marriage, Feelings

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.66, Penguin

• In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Children, Character

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.20, Penguin

• I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Religious, War

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.20, Penguin

• The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Church, Different

• Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ...
  - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated,
  - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sound, Adults

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Gospel Renewal: Center Church, Part Two”, p.74, Harper Collins

• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Important, Hunters, Culture

• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Country, Art

• The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

  Timothy Keller

  Differences, Culture, Christianity

• If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, Knowing, Culture

• The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

  Timothy Keller

  Idols, Culture, Addresses

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.38, Harper Collins

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin