Timothy J. Keller

“When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it…

— Timothy J. Keller

“Identity apart from God is inherently unstable.”

— Timothy J. Keller

“Put most simply, the gospel is an announcement—a declaration. The gospel is not advice to be followed; it is news, good (eu)…

— Timothy J. Keller

“Forgiveness means absorbing the debt of the sin yourself.”

— Timothy J. Keller

“They rout the inhabitants, and capture and kill Adoni-Bezek (“the Lord of Bezek”), who recognizes the rightness of this judgment on him…

— Timothy J. Keller

“Though most spiritual seekers start their search afraid of disappointment, Jesus says that he will always be infinitely more than anyone is…

— Timothy J. Keller

“Jesus is not a metaphor. He is real. This all happened.”

— Timothy J. Keller

“Jesus’s miracles in particular were never magic tricks, designed only to impress and coerce. You never see him say something like: “See…

— Timothy J. Keller

“Obedience flows out of faith; it is a consequence of saving faith, not a second condition for salvation.”

— Timothy J. Keller

“Atheists and agnostics ask for this kind of “proof” for God, but are not alone in holding to strong rationalism. Many Christians…

— Timothy J. Keller

“This shows us that “the good” God always is working for us is character change. He is making us as loving, noble,…

— Timothy J. Keller

“For the first phase of American history, “hope was chiefly expressed through a Christian story that gave meaning to suffering and pleasure…

— Timothy J. Keller

“All that is required to know this salvation is belief: it is offered to “everyone who believes” (v 16).”

— Timothy J. Keller

“the illusion that if we find our one true soul mate, everything wrong with us will be healed; but that makes the…

— Timothy J. Keller

“The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for…

— Timothy J. Keller

“At the root of each and every sin, and each and every problem, is unbelief and a rejection of the gospel.”

— Timothy J. Keller

“In 1961 the Russians put the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin. Nikita Khrushchev was the Russian premier, and he said that…

— Timothy J. Keller

“Deep humility. Examination: Have I looked down on anyone? Have I been too stung by criticism? Have I felt snubbed and ignored?…

— Timothy J. Keller

“So if someone asks you if you are a Christian, you should not say, “Of course!” There should be no “of course-ness”…

— Timothy J. Keller

“Not Christians. We don’t expect things in life to “work for good” of their own accord. When we find things working out…

— Timothy J. Keller

“The law has the power to show us that we are not righteous; but it cannot give us the power to be…

— Timothy J. Keller

“We humans may say, “Let there be light in this room,” but then we have to flick a switch or light a…

— Timothy J. Keller

“when you try to get payment through revenge the evil does not disappear. Instead it spreads, and it spreads most tragically of…

— Timothy J. Keller

“Christian living is therefore a continual realignment process—one of bringing everything in line with the truth of the gospel.”

— Timothy J. Keller

“Look what God’s done for me! Is this how I respond to him?”

— Timothy J. Keller