Quotes from Timothy Keller
In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.
- Timothy Keller
In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
- Timothy Keller
You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.
- Timothy Keller
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
- Timothy Keller
Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
- Timothy Keller
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.
- Timothy Keller
The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
- Timothy Keller
The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.
- Timothy Keller
Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.
- Timothy Keller
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way.
- Timothy Keller
The future is already won, and the more hostile the culture, the easier it is to communicate the difference of Christianity.
- Timothy Keller