Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

105. “God loves you just because He loves you.”

— Timothy Keller

106. “You won’t be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don’t change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly.”

— Timothy Keller

107. “Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.”

— Timothy Keller

108. “Don’t obey God to get things, obey God to get God.”

— Timothy Keller

109. “When people say, “I know God forgives me, but I can’t forgive myself,” they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God’s.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

111. “Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.”

— Timothy Keller

112. “Religion: ‘My identity is built on being a good person.’ Gospel: ‘My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ’s.’”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

114. “Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.”

— Timothy Keller

115. “The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive.”

— Timothy Keller

116. “Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross.”

— Timothy Keller

117. “Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.”

— Timothy Keller

118. “Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.”

— Timothy Keller

119. “How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship.”

— Timothy Keller

120. “Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won’t matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.”

— Timothy Keller

121. “People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don’t be surprised by messiness.”

— Timothy Keller

122. “The resurrection was God’s way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.”

— Timothy Keller

123. “Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.”

— Timothy Keller

124. “Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

126. “While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.”

— Timothy Keller

127. “To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.”

— Timothy Keller

128. “It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul’s prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances.”

— Timothy Keller

129. “There is a direct relationship between a person’s grasp and experience of God’s grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

131. “Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

133. “The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

135. “Revival occurs when those who think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it.”

— Timothy Keller

136. “Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.”

— Timothy Keller

137. “We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry.”

— Timothy Keller

138. “Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.”

— Timothy Keller

139. “Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.”

— Timothy Keller

140. “The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

142. “If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God.”

— Timothy Keller

143. “Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.”

— Timothy Keller

144. “Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.”

— Timothy Keller

145. “Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

147. “Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God’s attention is not based on our performance but parental love.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

149. “Prayer can be simple, but it’s not easy. Nothing great is.”

— Timothy Keller

150. “You are a totally loved moral failure.”

— Timothy Keller