Timothy Keller Quotes

No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.

Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Easter means that Christmas worked.

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

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?

The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.

If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.

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

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

Jesus was the temple to end all temples, the priest to end all priests, & the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.

Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.

Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.

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.

When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.

Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him.