Love Quotes by Timothy Keller

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

— Timothy Keller

“All real, life-changing love is costly, substitutionary sacrifice”

— Timothy Keller

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

— Timothy Keller

Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

All life-changing love is inconvenient.

— Timothy Keller

Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.

— Timothy Keller

God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

— Timothy Keller

Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.

— Timothy Keller

The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

— Timothy Keller

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

— Timothy Keller

I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.

— Timothy Keller

The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.

— Timothy Keller

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But…

— Timothy Keller

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the…

— Timothy Keller

“we tell the truth and keep our promises simply out of love for the One who died for us, who kept a…

— Timothy Keller

...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they…

— Timothy Keller

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself…

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of…

— Timothy Keller

“God’s love and mercy (like liberal preachers). Only when people see God as absolutely holy and absolutely loving will the cross of…

— Timothy Keller

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to…

— Timothy Keller

While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief,…

— Timothy Keller

“Each of the divine persons centers upon the others. None demands that the others revolve around him. Each voluntarily circles the other…

— Timothy Keller

All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to…

— Timothy Keller

Within this Christian vision of marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and…

— Timothy Keller

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

“all human work (especially excellent work), done by all people, as a channel of God’s love for his world. They will be…

— Timothy Keller

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is…

— Timothy Keller

“In Ephesians 3:14 – 21, Paul prays that the Spirit will strengthen his readers with power in their inner being. For what?…

— Timothy Keller

For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish…

— Timothy Keller

“Within this Christian vision for marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and…

— Timothy Keller

“...We must say to ourselves something like this: 'Well, when Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn't think "I am giving…

— Timothy Keller

“Sociologists argue that in contemporary Western society the marketplace has become so dominant that the consumer model increasingly characterizes most relationships that…

— Timothy Keller

“This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address…

— Timothy Keller

“Have you heard God's blessing in your inmost being? Are the words, "You are my beloved child, in whom I delight" an…

— Timothy Keller

“Love and relationships. Moralism often turns relationships into a blame game. This occurs when a moralist is traumatized by severe criticism and…

— Timothy Keller