Quotes from Timothy Keller
Love is primarily giving. It's an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.
- Timothy Keller
How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.
- Timothy Keller
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
Love is counting someone else's needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.
- Timothy Keller
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence .
- Timothy Keller
Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.
- Timothy Keller
If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.
- Timothy Keller
God loves you just because He loves you.
- Timothy Keller
Public faith means going public with what's in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.
- Timothy Keller
The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.
- Timothy Keller
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
All life-changing love is inconvenient.
- Timothy Keller