Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.”

— Timothy Keller

152. “On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God’s family freely by grace.”

— Timothy Keller

153. “Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.”

— Timothy Keller

154. “Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.”

— Timothy Keller

155. “Jesus says, “I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison””

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

157. “If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

159. “If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

161. “The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.”

— Timothy Keller

162. “Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.”

— Timothy Keller

163. “The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas.”

— Timothy Keller

164. “All life-changing love is inconvenient.”

— Timothy Keller

165. “So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.”

— Timothy Keller

166. “Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

168. “When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.”

— Timothy Keller

169. “Unless you point to the good news of God’s grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God’s judgement.”

— Timothy Keller

170. “Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.”

— Timothy Keller

171. “We don’t merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.”

— Timothy Keller

172. “The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule – it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory.”

— Timothy Keller

173. “If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.”

— Timothy Keller

174. “The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.”

— Timothy Keller

175. “Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.”

— Timothy Keller

176. “The gospel is not just the A-B-C’s but the A-Z of Christianity. The gospel is not just the minimum required doctrine necessary to enter the kingdom, but the way we make all progress in the kingdom.”

— Timothy Keller

177. “Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.”

— Timothy Keller

178. “Jesus’s miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.”

— Timothy Keller

179. “If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.”

— Timothy Keller

180. “The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.”

— Timothy Keller

181. “If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn’t come through – You only trusted God to meet your agenda.”

— Timothy Keller

182. “To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.”

— Timothy Keller

183. “Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.”

— Timothy Keller

184. “The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not ‘used’ the gospel in and on all parts of our life.”

— Timothy Keller

185. “In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.”

— Timothy Keller

186. “If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.”

— Timothy Keller

187. “The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?”

— Timothy Keller

188. “Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.”

— Timothy Keller

189. “If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said.”

— Timothy Keller

190. “While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.”

— Timothy Keller

191. “Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.”

— Timothy Keller

192. “If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.”

— Timothy Keller

193. “The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.”

— Timothy Keller

194. “To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God.”

— Timothy Keller

195. “Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.”

— Timothy Keller

196. “Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.”

— Timothy Keller

197. “No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career – something will inevitably ruin it.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

199. “God’s grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver...”

— Timothy Keller

200. “God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.”

— Timothy Keller