Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Bad evangelism says: I’m right, you’re wrong, and I would love to tell you about it.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

53. “Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.”

— Timothy Keller

54. “Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.”

— Timothy Keller

55. “God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.”

— Timothy Keller

56. “While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It’s a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.”

— Timothy Keller

57. “A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.”

— Timothy Keller

58. “The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.”

— Timothy Keller

59. “Describe the God you’ve rejected. Describe the God you don’t believe in. Maybe I don’t believe in that God either.”

— Timothy Keller

60. “Legalistic remorse says, “I broke God’s rules,” while real repentance says, “I broke God’s heart.””

— Timothy Keller

61. “God’s salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.”

— Timothy Keller

62. “A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.”

— Timothy Keller

63. “Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.”

— Timothy Keller

64. “Easter means that Christmas worked.”

— Timothy Keller

65. “It is no more narrow to claim that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think about all religions is right.”

— Timothy Keller

66. “But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.”

— Timothy Keller

67. “I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ – therefore I obey.”

— Timothy Keller

68. “Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.”

— Timothy Keller

69. “Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.”

— Timothy Keller

70. “If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.”

— Timothy Keller

71. “The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.”

— Timothy Keller

72. “Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.”

— Timothy Keller

73. “Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.”

— Timothy Keller

74. “The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.”

— Timothy Keller

75. “Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler’s assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.”

— Timothy Keller

76. “Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news.”

— Timothy Keller

77. “No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.”

— Timothy Keller

78. “I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears.”

— Timothy Keller

79. “Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially ‘deify.’ We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.”

— Timothy Keller

80. “As many have learned and later taught, you don’t realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.”

— Timothy Keller

81. “Religion operates on the principle ‘I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.’ But the operating principle of the gospel is ‘I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.’”

— Timothy Keller

82. “The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.”

— Timothy Keller

83. “Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.”

— Timothy Keller

84. “God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.”

— Timothy Keller

85. “Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.”

— Timothy Keller

86. “Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.”

— Timothy Keller

87. “If you don’t love the poor, you don’t know what God’s done for you.”

— Timothy Keller

88. “Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.”

— Timothy Keller

89. “Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,’I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I’m signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It’s going to be hard but I want to get there.”

— Timothy Keller

90. “There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.”

— Timothy Keller

91. “Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.”

— Timothy Keller

92. “Faith in God’s promises means not always following the expected, rational path.”

— Timothy Keller

93. “If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.”

— Timothy Keller

94. “No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.”

— Timothy Keller

95. “There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.”

— Timothy Keller

96. “You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.”

— Timothy Keller

97. “Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.”

— Timothy Keller

98. “The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.”

— Timothy Keller

99. “There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.”

— Timothy Keller

100. “Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.”

— Timothy Keller