Timothy Keller

Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.

— Timothy Keller

Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.

— Timothy Keller

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

— Timothy Keller

You don't fall in love. You commit to it.

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

— Timothy Keller

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

— Timothy Keller

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

— Timothy Keller

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

— Timothy Keller

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

— Timothy Keller

What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.

— Timothy Keller

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He…

— Timothy Keller

The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.

— Timothy Keller

“It is not the amount of our faith but the object of our faith that saves us.”

— Timothy Keller

“A boring sermon is boring because it fails to bring the truth into the listeners’ daily life and world. It does not…

— 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

“we tell the truth and keep our promises simply out of love for the One who died for us, who kept a…

— Timothy Keller

“Paul appointed elders in each church, giving them a certain amount of independence. He was able to do this because the natural…

— Timothy Keller

Living is giving…If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if…

— Timothy Keller

“There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word,…

— Timothy Keller

“Only in the gospel can we be both enormously bold and utterly sensitive and humble, for we are simul justus et peccator,…

— 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

You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way,…

— Timothy Keller

“Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without…

— Timothy Keller

“A major part of God’s work is his delight in continuing to sustain and cultivate creation (Pss 65:9–13; 145:21; 147:15 – 20).…

— Timothy Keller

A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from…

— Timothy Keller

The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of…

— 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

“we are continuing God’s work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative…

— Timothy Keller

“Self-control. Moralists tell us to control our passions out of fear of punishment. This is a volition-based approach. Relativists tell us to…

— Timothy Keller

“If we get our very identity, our sense of worth, from our political position, then politics is not really about, it is…

— Timothy Keller

“God is blessing the church in China with extraordinary growth. However, when Chinese churches and ministers who had experienced God’s blessing in…

— Timothy Keller

“Even though the gospel is a set of truths to understand and believe, it cannot remain a set of beliefs if it…

— Timothy Keller

“Churches that are filled with self-righteous, exclusive, insecure, angry, moralistic people are extremely unattractive. Their public pronouncements are often highly judgmental, while…

— Timothy Keller

“the basic form of this every-member gospel ministry is the same: • Organic. It happens spontaneously, outside of the church’s organized programs…

— Timothy Keller

“A friend who attended a prestigious MBA program once told me about the business ethics course he took there. The professor counseled…

— Timothy Keller

“Sociologists argue that in contemporary Western society the marketplace has become so dominant that the consumer model increasingly characterizes most relationships that…

— Timothy Keller

“If we just preach general doctrine and ethics from Scripture, we are not preaching the gospel. The gospel is the good news…

— Timothy Keller