Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.”

— Timothy Keller

252. “Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ’s love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.”

— Timothy Keller

253. “As things are brought back under Christ’s rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.”

— Timothy Keller

254. “In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.”

— Timothy Keller

255. “Jesus is the author of faith, the provider of faith, and the object of faith.”

— Timothy Keller

256. “But resurrection is not just consolation – it is restoration. We get it all back – the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life – but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.”

— Timothy Keller

257. “Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You’ll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.”

— Timothy Keller

258. “It’s impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.”

— Timothy Keller

259. “Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it’s intimacy with a personal friend.”

— Timothy Keller

260. “When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.”

— Timothy Keller

261. “Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.”

— Timothy Keller

262. “In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We’re a family.”

— Timothy Keller

263. “If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.”

— Timothy Keller

264. “The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.”

— Timothy Keller

265. “Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you.”

— Timothy Keller

266. “The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.”

— Timothy Keller

267. “I am God and I am coming to find you.”

— Timothy Keller

268. “Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.”

— Timothy Keller

269. “The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?””

— Timothy Keller

270. “Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.”

— Timothy Keller

271. “The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.”

— Timothy Keller

272. “If you add anything to Jesus as a requirement for being happy, that’s your real king.”

— Timothy Keller

273. “The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.”

— Timothy Keller

274. “I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun’s gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.”

— Timothy Keller

275. “When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others.”

— Timothy Keller

276. “When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.”

— Timothy Keller

277. “Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, ‘I am God, and I am coming to find you.’”

— Timothy Keller

278. “You are under-qualified for the job of God.”

— Timothy Keller

279. “God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.”

— Timothy Keller

280. “A person’s faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.”

— Timothy Keller

281. “The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.”

— Timothy Keller

282. “The very fact that we have access to God’s attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

284. “If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.”

— Timothy Keller

285. “Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, can coexist only in God.”

— Timothy Keller

286. “If you try to add to God’s salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God’s salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God’s salvation you haven’t believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.”

— Timothy Keller

287. “To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.”

— Timothy Keller

288. “Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.”

— Timothy Keller

289. “Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.”

— Timothy Keller

290. “Christians don’t believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it’s exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.”

— Timothy Keller

291. “The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ’s past.”

— Timothy Keller

292. “No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.”

— Timothy Keller

293. “The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.”

— Timothy Keller

294. “While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.”

— Timothy Keller

295. “Whatever you base your life on – you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.”

— Timothy Keller

296. “If we say, ‘I believe in Jesus,’ but it doesn’t affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven’t truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.”

— Timothy Keller

297. “The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.”

— Timothy Keller

298. “When Jesus got the big questions, he didn’t present arguments. He presented himself.”

— Timothy Keller

299. “The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it’s about being called to follow a King.”

— Timothy Keller

300. “Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.”

— Timothy Keller