Timothy J. Keller Quotes

There are many goods that God will not give us unless we honor him and make our hearts safe to receive them through prayer.

Augustine writes: "We love God, therefore, for what He is in Himself, and [we love] ourselves and our neighbors for His sake." That

All the seemingly loose threads and contradictory claims of the rest of the Bible come together in Jesus.

But this is an impossibility.23 You cannot get an identity through self-recognition; it must come in a great measure from others.

the only character flaws that can really destroy you are the ones you won't admit.

God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything that He knows.

Sin can harden our hearts so we lose everything, but suffering, if handled rightly, can make us wiser, happier, and deeper.

prayerful dependence on the grace of Jesus is our only refuge from our own sin.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.

We must not decide how to pray based on what types of prayer are the most effective for producing the experiences and feelings we want.

Our greatest motive for surrendering to him cannot be for what he will do in us. It must be to love him for what he did for us. In

This is one of God's great purposes in marriage: to picture the relationship between Christ and His redeemed people forever!

As John Newton said, if we are not getting much out of going to God in prayer, we will certainly get nothing out of staying away.

Only if your God can say things that upset you will you know you have a real God and not just a creation of your imagination. So

Christmas shows us that Christianity is not good advice. It is good news. THE

In the end faith always moves beyond mental assent and duty and will involve the whole self - mind, will, and emotions. Why

Only Jesus says, "I have come for the weak. I have come for those who admit they are weak. I will save them not by what they do but through what I do.

Identity apart from God is inherently unstable.

All work, according to God's design, is service.

Hope comes not in the solution to the problem but in focusing on Christ, who facilitates the change.

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace.

the natural condition of the human ego: that it is empty, painful, busy and fragile.

John Stott concludes, "It seems to have been Paul's deliberate policy to move purposefully from one strategic city-centre to the next."5

Job 28 is a magnificent poem that engages the modern technology narrative head-on.

Now I know that you love me more than anything in the world." That's what "the fear of God" means.

The main problem in a person's life is never his suffering; it's his sin.

Created meaning is a less rational way to live life than doing so with discovered meaning.

You are with Another, and he is unique. God is the only person from whom you can hide nothing.

Gifts are things we do, but spiritual fruit or graces are things we are

obviously different from everything that a nonbeliever does. That

The Psalms are the prayer book of the Bible, but it is noteworthy that the first Psalm is not a prayer per se but a meditation - in

Prepare the preacher more than you prepare the sermon.

Prayer, therefore, leads to a self-knowledge that is impossible to achieve any other way.

Gilligan argued that while men seek maturity by detaching themselves, women see themselves maturing as they attach.18

The Gospel, because it is a true story, means all the best stories will be proved, in the ultimate sense, true. THE

When you claim to have the truth, you are trying to get power and control over other people.

OVERCONFIDENCE. We often stroll through life, thinking everything will be fine, until suddenly it isn't.

Competency is a basic value. It is not a means to some other end, such as wealth or position, although such results may occur.

You have been saved through a dying sacrifice, so you are free to be a living one.

How can I lose my attraction to the most beautiful face in the universe? Revive my soul and reopen my eyes to your glory and grace. Amen.

Follow the pathway of the fear back into your heart to discover the things you love more than God.

the abuse of the subjective in some circles cannot exclude the 'mystical' and emotional dimensions of Christian experience.

The true god of your heart is what your thoughts effortlessly go to when there is nothing else demanding your attention.

Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.

the city is humanity intensified - a magnifying glass that brings out the very best and worst of human nature

Christians have their attitude toward God changed from one of duty to free, loving self-giving because of what Jesus did for us on the cross.

But Christianity is not just for the strong; it's for everyone, especially for people who admit that, where it really counts, they're weak.

Another reason for the primacy of praise is that it has such power to heal what is wrong with us and create inner spiritual health.

When you see him dying to make you his treasure, that will make him yours.

Prayer turns theology into experience.