Quotes from Timothy Keller
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
- Timothy Keller
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.
- Timothy Keller
Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.
- Timothy Keller
Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.
- Timothy Keller
But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
- Timothy Keller
The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.
- Timothy Keller
There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.
- Timothy Keller
Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can't understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.
- Timothy Keller
In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
- Timothy Keller
Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'
- Timothy Keller
Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.
- Timothy Keller
Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
- Timothy Keller