Prayer Quotes by Timothy Keller

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

— Timothy Keller

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

— Timothy Keller

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.

— Timothy Keller

Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself

— Timothy Keller

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

— Timothy Keller

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

— Timothy Keller

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

— Timothy Keller

We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?

— Timothy Keller

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

— Timothy Keller

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

— Timothy Keller

“As in the Old Testament, God’s response to prayer and persecution is the sending of the Spirit to revive individuals and churches.”

— 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

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

— Timothy Keller

Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look…

— Timothy Keller

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has.…

— Timothy Keller

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn…

— Timothy Keller

“The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim…

— Timothy Keller

A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods…

— Timothy Keller

The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to…

— Timothy Keller

It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us…

— Timothy Keller

“we must not miss the fact that Paul directly tells a local congregation to adapt its worship because nonbelievers will be present.…

— Timothy Keller

“Present the sacraments so as to make the gospel clear. Baptism, and especially adult baptism, should be given great significance in evangelistic…

— Timothy Keller

“So the novelist David Foster Wallace, not long before his suicide, spoke these words to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College:…

— Timothy Keller

“DEVOTION TO GOD’S KINGDOM OVER SELF OR TRIBE ENABLES SACRIFICE People in a church with movement dynamics put the vision ahead of…

— Timothy Keller

“a. Seek to worship and preach in the vernacular. It is impossible to overstate how insular and subcultural our preaching can become.…

— Timothy Keller

“Let’s think back for a moment to the boring sermon. Sometimes the sermon we hear is boring because it went on for…

— Timothy Keller

“LEAD PEOPLE TO COMMITMENT We have seen that nonbelievers in worship actually “close with Christ” in two basic ways: some may come…

— Timothy Keller

“Celebrate deeds of mercy and justice. We live in a time when public esteem of the church is plummeting. For many outsiders…

— Timothy Keller

“THE MEANS OF GOSPEL RENEWAL While the ultimate source of a revival is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit ordinarily uses several “instrumental,”…

— Timothy Keller

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

— Timothy Keller

Prayer turns theology into experience.

— Timothy Keller

Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

— Timothy Keller

You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.

— Timothy Keller

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

— Timothy Keller

The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.

— Timothy Keller

The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves.

— Timothy Keller

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

— Timothy Keller