Sin Quotes by Timothy Keller

For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.

— Timothy Keller

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

— Timothy Keller

The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.

— Timothy Keller

We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.

— Timothy Keller

Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.

— Timothy Keller

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

— Timothy Keller

There is no sin that is a match for God's grace.

— Timothy Keller

How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.

— Timothy Keller

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

— Timothy Keller

“The proper biblical understanding of sin is much more radical and far-reaching. It can never be used as a weapon, because it…

— Timothy Keller

Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his…

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

— Timothy Keller

If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ…

— Timothy Keller

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living…

— Timothy Keller

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

— Timothy Keller

[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is…

— 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

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge…

— Timothy Keller

To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of…

— Timothy Keller

At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a…

— 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

Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship…

— Timothy Keller

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

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

— Timothy Keller

There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However,…

— Timothy Keller

The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show…

— Timothy Keller

Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people…

— Timothy Keller

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

— Timothy Keller

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

— Timothy Keller

“The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of…

— Timothy Keller

I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'

— Timothy Keller

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

— Timothy Keller

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear…

— Timothy Keller

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek…

— Timothy Keller

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

— Timothy Keller

We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what…

— Timothy Keller

The problem with the world is it blames problems on things besides sin and identifies salvation on things besides God.

— Timothy Keller

The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.

— Timothy Keller

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his…

— Timothy Keller