Timothy Keller Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Timothy Keller
Timothy Keller Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Timothy Keller on Wise Famous Quotes.
Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.
The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.
There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? (Deut 4:7).
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.
If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.
While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .
We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
The wonder of the cross is that in the very same stroke it satisfies both the love of God and the justice of God.
In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.
For the sake of your name, LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great. 12 Who, then, are those who fear the Lord? He will
Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.
God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.
This woman saw the gospel - that you're more wicked than you ever believed, but at the same time more loved and accepted than you ever dared to hope.
Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn't already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.
The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.
On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?
Inordinate love creates inordinate, uncontrollable anguish if anything goes wrong with the object of our greatest hope.
Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross
The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.
Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.
Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.
If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.
You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.
To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.
If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.
Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'
Then, as now, the cities were filled with the poor, and urban Christians' commitment to the poor was visible and striking.
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.
One thing have I desired of the Lord, one thing will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord to behold the beauty of the Lord.
How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.
If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors.
Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.
Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.
What marriage is for: It is a way for two spiritual friends to help each other on their journey to become the persons God designed them to be.
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
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 church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.
The way the normal human ego tries to fill its emptiness and deal with its discomfort is by comparing itself to other people. All the time.
All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.
Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.
The essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.