Quotes from Timothy Keller
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
- Timothy Keller
Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.
- Timothy Keller
Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.
- Timothy Keller
If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.
- Timothy Keller
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
- Timothy Keller
Suffering is unbearable if you aren't certain that God is for you and with you.
- Timothy Keller
You are under-qualified for the job of God.
- Timothy Keller
Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'
- Timothy Keller
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.
- Timothy Keller
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
- Timothy Keller
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
- Timothy Keller
People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.
- Timothy Keller