Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

105. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

107. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

109. “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

110. “The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

112. “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

113. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

117. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

121. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

129. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

135. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

138. “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

139. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

142. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

148. “Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.”

— Timothy Keller

149. “Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to ‘reorder’ our loves is to love God supremely.”

— Timothy Keller

150. “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