8 Thought-Provoking Quotes From Tim Keller's New Book 'Prodigal Prophet'

An Unlikely Prophet

"Jonah And The Whale" 
"Jonah And The Whale"  | (Photo: Screengrab)

"The original readers of the book of Jonah would have remembered him as intensely patriotic, a highly partisan nationalist. And they would have been amazed that God would send a man like that to preach to the very people he most feared and hated." (12)

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