“The Spirit’s work of making the gospel real to the heart weakens the self-centeredness in the soul.” — Timothy Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and… — Timothy Keller Christian Copy Share Image
The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have… — Timothy Keller Access Copy Share Image
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us. — Timothy Keller Advice Copy Share Image
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be. — Timothy Keller Desire Copy Share Image
As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us. — Timothy Keller Grace Copy Share Image
...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less. — Timothy Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet… — Timothy Keller Agendas Copy Share Image
“If you have a God infinite and powerful enough for you to be angry at for allowing evil, then you must at… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“it is one thing to have a ministry that is gospel believing and even gospel proclaiming but quite another to have one… — Timothy Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
“I concluded that an understanding of the biblical marks of a healthy church was absolutely foundational and necessary, but that something more… — Timothy Keller Bible Copy Share Image
“As I took up life as a minister, I tried to understand why so many people resisted and rejected God, I soon… — Timothy Keller Affliction Copy Share Image
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek… — Timothy Keller Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“First, an urban church’s work among the poor will be a significant mark of its validity. It is one of the “good… — Timothy Keller Good deeds Copy Share Image
Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“If we are saved by grace alone, this salvation is a constant source of amazed delight. Nothing is mundane or matter-of-fact about… — Timothy Keller Gospel Copy Share Image
“Christians agree that when we sell and market, we need to show potential customers that a product “adds value” to their lives.… — Timothy Keller Christianity 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 Action Copy Share Image
Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach… — Timothy Keller Character Copy Share Image
The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of… — Timothy Keller Believer Copy Share Image
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to… — Timothy Keller Being loved Copy Share Image
If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism,… — Timothy Keller Buddhism Copy Share Image
If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing. — Timothy Keller Culture Copy Share Image
Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
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 Image
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows — Timothy Keller Giving Copy Share Image
If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere. — Timothy Keller Christianity Copy Share Image
Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel. — Timothy Keller Christ Copy Share Image
“Everybody has got to live for something, but Jesus is arguing that, if he is not that thing, it will fail you.” — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances. — Timothy Keller Apostles Copy Share Image
When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed. — Timothy Keller Jobs Copy Share Image
If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness. — Timothy Keller Greatness Copy Share Image
Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none. — Timothy Keller Christ Copy Share Image
The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage. — Timothy Keller Centeredness Copy Share Image
Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their… — Timothy Keller Afterlife Copy Share Image
