Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “If you have a small view of your sin, God’s grace will be small to you.”

— Timothy Keller

352. “We should let Scripture interpret us more than we interpret Scripture.”

— Timothy Keller

353. “In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.”

— Timothy Keller

354. “We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.”

— Timothy Keller

355. “There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our ‘incurable God-sickness.’”

— Timothy Keller

356. “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

357. “The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.”

— Timothy Keller

358. “All I know is, if I don’t care about the poor, if my church doesn’t care about the poor, that’s evil.”

— Timothy Keller

359. “There is no sin that is a match for God’s grace.”

— Timothy Keller

360. “To the degree you experience God’s love towards you – seeing you as beautiful and radiant – to that degree sex won’t ruin your life.”

— Timothy Keller

361. “To say doctrine doesn’t matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It’s the doctrine of salvation by works.”

— Timothy Keller

362. “If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?”

— Timothy Keller

363. “The more you understand how your salvation isn’t about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.”

— Timothy Keller

364. “The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.”

— Timothy Keller

365. “Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.”

— Timothy Keller

366. “Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

368. “When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God’s glory.”

— Timothy Keller

369. “We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.”

— Timothy Keller

370. “The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.”

— Timothy Keller

371. “Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.”

— Timothy Keller

372. “As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.”

— Timothy Keller

373. “When people say, “God is love,” I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.”

— Timothy Keller

374. “Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.”

— Timothy Keller

375. “Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.”

— Timothy Keller

376. “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

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

— Timothy Keller

378. “The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.”

— Timothy Keller

379. “If you aren’t constantly astonished at God’s grace in your solitude, there’s no way it can happen in public.”

— Timothy Keller

380. “If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we’ve created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?”

— Timothy Keller

381. “We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.”

— Timothy Keller

382. “God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.”

— Timothy Keller

383. “It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

385. “The human race doesn’t need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know.”

— Timothy Keller

386. “The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.”

— Timothy Keller

387. “Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.”

— Timothy Keller

388. “The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.”

— Timothy Keller

389. “You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.”

— Timothy Keller

390. “The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.”

— Timothy Keller

391. “To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.”

— Timothy Keller

392. “We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.”

— Timothy Keller

393. “Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.”

— Timothy Keller

394. “One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.”

— Timothy Keller

395. “Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.”

— Timothy Keller

396. “What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.”

— Timothy Keller

397. “Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.”

— Timothy Keller

398. “If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.”

— Timothy Keller

399. “God loves and defends those with the least economic and social power, and so should we.”

— Timothy Keller

400. “How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?”

— Timothy Keller