Timothy J. Keller

Quotes

• “When you feel great delight in someone, meeting their needs and getting their gratitude and affection in return is extre...”
• “Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to...”
• “Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence i...”
• “The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is ...”
• “In short, the Enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as indivi...”
• “The gospel is neither religion nor irreligion - it is something else altogether. Religion makes law and moral obedience ...”
• “The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its...”
• “If we are saved by grace alone, this salvation is a constant source of amazed delight. Nothing is mundane or matter-of-f...”
• “The answer is that their confidence was actuallh in God, not in their limited understanding of what they thought he woul...”
• “Work is so foundational to our makeup that it is one of the few things we can take in significant doses without harm. In...”
• “Jesus, unlike the founder of any other major faith, holds out hope for ordinary human life. Our future is not an etherea...”
• “The reason that marriage is so painful and yet wonderful is because it is a reflection of the gospel, which is painful a...”
• “In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, ...”
• “A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And so our work can be a ...”
• “The Bible teaches that the human struggle happens within a single entity — the human heart. The main human struggle is n...”
• “Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a rem...”
• “Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian aboliti...”
• “we are continuing God’s work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw o...”
• “Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'ask, seek, knock' in order to find hi...”
• “God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'--that is, in a completely unmerited way. He c...”
• “If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn't rise from the dead, then why worry a...”
• “...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling lov...”
• “Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstan...”
• “...the basic premise of religion—that if you live a good life, things will go well for you—is wrong. Jesus was the most ...”
• “God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He abs...”
• “There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is "...”
• “Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are dest...”
• “If believers in God don't honor the cries and claims of the poor, we don't honor him, whatever we profess, because we hi...”
• “If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not...”
• “Properly understood, the doctrine of sin means that believers are never as good as our true worldview should make us. Si...”
• “If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to meri...”
• “The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it ...”
• “Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is true...”
• “Jesus Christ says, 'Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be out of busin...”
• “To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hear...”
• “The proper biblical understanding of sin is much more radical and far-reaching. It can never be used as a weapon, becaus...”
• “It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch...”
• “Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just f...”
• “The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon ...”
• “Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious asser...”
• “God's grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and w...”
• “All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understand...”
• “The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion...”
• “While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spo...”
• “You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get ...”
• “Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not ...”
• “To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't rui...”
• “On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all t...”
• “No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its roo...”
• “The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or rel...”