Christian Quotes by Timothy Keller

God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

— Timothy Keller

A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!

— Timothy Keller

Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

— Timothy Keller

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

— Timothy Keller

The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.

— Timothy Keller

If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't.

— Timothy Keller

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.

— Timothy Keller

Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.

— Timothy Keller

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a…

— Timothy Keller

Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.

— Timothy Keller

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

— Timothy Keller

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

— Timothy Keller

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

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

— Timothy Keller

The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and…

— Timothy Keller

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

— 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

“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long…

— Timothy Keller

Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really…

— Timothy Keller

One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I…

— Timothy Keller

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with…

— Timothy Keller

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to…

— 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

I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine,…

— 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

At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems…

— Timothy Keller

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the…

— Timothy Keller

I've heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. "You have to believe because…

— Timothy Keller

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

“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the…

— Timothy Keller

A church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of compassion and social justice than traditional liberal churches and more…

— Timothy Keller

In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any…

— Timothy Keller

“Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way…

— Timothy Keller

“You either are a Christian or you are not — you either are united to him by faith or you are not…

— Timothy Keller

“The Greek word euangelizo means “to gospelize,” to tell people the good news about what Jesus did for us, and in the…

— Timothy Keller

“So when we say that Christians work from a gospel worldview, it does not mean that they are constantly speaking about Christian…

— Timothy Keller

“There are now six times more Anglicans in Nigeria alone than there are in all of the United States. There are more…

— Timothy Keller

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

— Timothy Keller

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

— Timothy Keller

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

— Timothy Keller