Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

305. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

315. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

321. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

326. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

329. “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

330. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

345. “To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God’s nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

347. “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

348. “If you have a small view of your sin, God’s grace will be small to you.”

— Timothy Keller

349. “If you’re a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don’t.”

— Timothy Keller

350. “At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity – of which each one of us is a part – crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God’s salvation.”

— Timothy Keller