Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “To truly become Christians we must also repent of the reasons we ever did anything right.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

308. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

310. “What you do in secret tells you who your God is.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

312. “Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place.”

— Timothy Keller

313. “Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?”

— Timothy Keller

314. “The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.”

— Timothy Keller

315. “Faith journeys are never simply intellectual exercises.”

— Timothy Keller

316. “If we give God things in hope that they’ll earn us blessings, we’re really not doing anything for him. It’s for ourselves.”

— Timothy Keller

317. “Every treasure on this earth says, ‘Give your life to purchase me.’ Jesus says ‘I’m the one treasure who died to purchase you.’”

— Timothy Keller

318. “Adam wasn’t lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.”

— Timothy Keller

319. “We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.”

— Timothy Keller

320. “Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.”

— Timothy Keller

321. “Proper wedding vows are more a promise of mutually binding future love than a declaration of your present love.”

— Timothy Keller

322. “The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him.”

— Timothy Keller

323. “Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won’t leave you where you were.”

— Timothy Keller

324. “In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.”

— Timothy Keller

325. “Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.”

— Timothy Keller

326. “Just because we don’t see a reason for evil and suffering doesn’t mean there’s not a reason for it.”

— Timothy Keller

327. “It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.”

— Timothy Keller

328. “We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.”

— Timothy Keller

329. “Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.”

— Timothy Keller

330. “If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.”

— Timothy Keller

331. “It takes more than a great church to reach a city, it takes a great movement of churches.”

— Timothy Keller

332. “We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.”

— Timothy Keller

333. “You don’t fall in love. You commit to it.”

— Timothy Keller

334. “Covenant community is like air. We don’t miss it until we need it.”

— Timothy Keller

335. “Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.”

— Timothy Keller

336. “To take a person out of slavery takes an instant. To take slavery out of a person takes a process.”

— Timothy Keller

337. “People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.”

— Timothy Keller

338. “We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.”

— Timothy Keller

339. “Reason can get you to probability, but only commitment can get you to certainty.”

— Timothy Keller

340. “We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.”

— Timothy Keller

341. “The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.”

— Timothy Keller

342. “If you can’t show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart.”

— Timothy Keller

343. “Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.”

— Timothy Keller

344. “In cities you have more image of God per square inch than anywhere else on Earth.”

— Timothy Keller

345. “Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.”

— Timothy Keller

346. “Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.”

— Timothy Keller

347. “Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties.”

— Timothy Keller

348. “Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.”

— Timothy Keller

349. “If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.”

— Timothy Keller

350. “Honor the image of God. Human beings are not accidents, but creations.”

— Timothy Keller