Quotes from Timothy Keller
If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.
- Timothy Keller
Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.
- Timothy Keller
On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.
- Timothy Keller
If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.
- Timothy Keller
To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try.
- Timothy Keller
Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.
- Timothy Keller
We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.
- Timothy Keller
The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.
- Timothy Keller
Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
- Timothy Keller
You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
- Timothy Keller
God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.
- Timothy Keller
If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.
- Timothy Keller