Heart Quotes by Timothy Keller

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

— Timothy Keller

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

— Timothy Keller

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

— Timothy Keller

Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

— Timothy Keller

We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.

— Timothy Keller

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

— Timothy Keller

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

— Timothy Keller

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than…

— Timothy Keller

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

— Timothy Keller

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

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

— Timothy Keller

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our…

— Timothy Keller

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

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

— Timothy Keller

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

— Timothy Keller

Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us…

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

— Timothy Keller

This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love…

— 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

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

Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and…

— Timothy Keller

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

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends…

— 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

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of…

— Timothy Keller

It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It…

— Timothy Keller

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

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

“The gospel, if it is really believed, removes neediness - the need to be constantly respected, appreciated, and well regarded; the need…

— Timothy Keller

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

The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is…

— Timothy Keller

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

— Timothy Keller

Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally…

— Timothy Keller

The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns…

— Timothy Keller

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