Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “The problem with the world is it blames problems on things besides sin and identifies salvation on things besides God.”

— Timothy Keller

252. “How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.”

— Timothy Keller

253. “The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

255. “The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.”

— Timothy Keller

256. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

258. “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

259. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

262. “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

263. “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

264. “Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

266. “If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.”

— Timothy Keller

267. “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

268. “The irreligious don’t repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

270. “A god of less wrath than the God of the Bible is necessarily a god of less love. His anger is a product of his love.”

— Timothy Keller

271. “If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.”

— Timothy Keller

272. “When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

277. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— 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. “Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

286. “Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community – the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.”

— Timothy Keller

287. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

289. “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

290. “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

291. “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

292. “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

293. “What you do today is shaped by what you believe about tomorrow.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

296. “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

297. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

300. “If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere.”

— Timothy Keller