Timothy Keller

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

— Timothy Keller

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

— Timothy Keller

As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

— Timothy Keller

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

— Timothy Keller

Discipleship is not an option. Jesus says that if anyone would come after me, he must follow me.

— 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

Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ’s name.

— Timothy Keller

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

— Timothy Keller

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer…

— Timothy Keller

We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when…

— Timothy Keller

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

— Timothy Keller

Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.

— Timothy Keller

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond…

— 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

“If God were small enough to be understood, he wouldn’t be big enough to be worshipped.” —Evelyn Underhill357”

— Timothy Keller

We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream.

— Timothy Keller

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

— Timothy Keller

Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .

— Timothy Keller

Because of Jesus-there is always hope, even in the darkest moments of your life.

— Timothy Keller

Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.

— 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

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

— Timothy Keller

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

— Timothy Keller

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

— Timothy Keller

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

— Timothy Keller

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

— Timothy Keller

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

— Timothy Keller

Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose.

— Timothy Keller

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase…

— Timothy Keller

“Properly understood, Christianity is by no means the opiate of the people. It’s more like the smelling salts.”

— Timothy Keller

Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.

— Timothy Keller

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

— Timothy Keller

To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.

— Timothy Keller

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

— Timothy Keller

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.

— Timothy Keller