Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart." — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is not accurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then, what matures Christians is trying hard to live… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The gospel, if it is really believed, removes neediness - the need to be constantly respected, appreciated, and well regarded; the need… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“Evangelism will come organically in friendship if we don’t let our pride, fears, and pessimism cause us to hide our faith and heart.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“The coming of the messianic King occurs in two stages. At his first coming, he saved us from the penalty of sin and gave… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“24 A few pages later, Delbanco writes the following: [Alexis de] Tocqueville’s detection of a “strange melancholy in the midst of abundance” has a… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“of temple, presence, and sacrifice; of covenant and faithfulness; of kingdom and victory. When we seek to communicate the gospel to a particular culture,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“Finally, you are ready to launch your church. Begin by developing action steps and goals that can be used as benchmarks to track your… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
“When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When… — Timothy Keller Copy Share
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves. — Timothy Keller Copy Share
