Quotes from Timothy Keller
What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.
- Timothy Keller
Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me...I want to be a friend.
- Timothy Keller
The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.
- Timothy Keller
I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'
- Timothy Keller
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
- Timothy Keller
Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.
- Timothy Keller
Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
- Timothy Keller
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
- Timothy Keller
Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
- Timothy Keller
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
The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
- Timothy Keller
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