Top 450 Timothy Keller Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs – you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

403. “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

404. “Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.”

— Timothy Keller

405. “The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.”

— Timothy Keller

406. “Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?”

— Timothy Keller

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

— Timothy Keller

408. “Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.”

— Timothy Keller

409. “Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.”

— Timothy Keller

410. “By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived.”

— Timothy Keller

411. “Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.”

— Timothy Keller

412. “We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?”

— Timothy Keller

413. “It’s important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.”

— Timothy Keller

414. “For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.”

— Timothy Keller

415. “Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people’s response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.”

— Timothy Keller

416. “Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.”

— Timothy Keller

417. “No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.”

— Timothy Keller

418. “One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: ‘I’m not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I’ve read by a Christian that didn’t treat me like I was an idiot.’”

— Timothy Keller

419. “Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.”

— Timothy Keller

420. “If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.”

— Timothy Keller

421. “Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.”

— Timothy Keller

422. “If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.”

— Timothy Keller

423. “We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.”

— Timothy Keller

424. “If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.”

— Timothy Keller

425. “A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.”

— Timothy Keller

426. “We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.”

— Timothy Keller

427. “Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself.”

— Timothy Keller

428. “If you didn’t earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?”

— Timothy Keller

429. “The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus – the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer – is another.”

— Timothy Keller

430. “When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.”

— Timothy Keller

431. “If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you’re actually still enslaved by it. It’s still controlling you.”

— Timothy Keller

432. “Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.”

— Timothy Keller

433. “Big cities have a lot of ‘younger brothers’ who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with ‘elder brothers’ too.”

— Timothy Keller

434. “God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.”

— Timothy Keller

435. “Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.”

— Timothy Keller

436. “The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.”

— Timothy Keller

437. “Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.”

— Timothy Keller

438. “Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.”

— Timothy Keller

439. “Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.”

— Timothy Keller

440. “It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.”

— Timothy Keller

441. “The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you’re a sinner, and it has the part that says you’re loved and accepted.”

— Timothy Keller

442. “Grace is to be let into a place that you don’t have a right to be.”

— Timothy Keller

443. “We’ve got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation – the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.”

— Timothy Keller

444. “The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.”

— Timothy Keller

445. “All Christians have opportunities to serve those who might never come to church or listen to a sermon.”

— Timothy Keller

446. “A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!”

— Timothy Keller

447. “When you say, “Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord,” he can’t. He’s both.”

— Timothy Keller

448. “To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.”

— Timothy Keller

449. “Important reminder: It’s not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.”

— Timothy Keller

450. “Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.”

— Timothy Keller