Timothy Keller Quotes
The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.
The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.
Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.
Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.
A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life.
Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?
Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.
It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.
There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.
Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"
Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.
God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.
The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.
Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed.
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.
We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.
To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.
It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.
Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.
Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?
