Quotes from Timothy Keller
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
- Timothy Keller
If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
- Timothy Keller
If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.
- Timothy Keller
Change won't happen through 'trying harder' but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
- Timothy Keller
Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.
- Timothy Keller
God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.
- Timothy Keller
The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God's grace appears to you.
- Timothy Keller
We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.
- Timothy Keller
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
- Timothy Keller
God's grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
- Timothy Keller
Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.
- Timothy Keller
Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.
- Timothy Keller