Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Because we put ourselves in God’s place, He put Himself in our place.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

305. “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

306. “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

307. “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

308. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

313. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

317. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

319. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

324. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

331. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

334. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

340. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

342. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— 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 Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.”

— Timothy Keller

349. “If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.”

— Timothy Keller

350. “Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.”

— Timothy Keller