Timothy J. Keller Quotes

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. N...

The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practi...

If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bi...

Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to m...

Righteous Lord, I have many who falsely accuse me. Defend me from them! But I also know my sin, and my heart rightly accuses me. I rest in Jesus’s atoning death for me.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Jesus Christ says, 'Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be out of business.' This is the most stunning thing any human being has ever said.

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life.

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.

God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'--that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender,...

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life. Many people will pray when they are required by cultural or social circumstances. Those with a genuinely lived rela...

Idolatry means turning a good thing into the ultimate thing.

Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you.

Why was God sending a deluge of disappointments? Tis in this way, the Lord replied, in essence: I am ANSWERING your prayers for grace and faith. I am only trying to liberate you from the things that e...

Lord, I don’t like some of the things I find taught in the Bible. I don’t like some of the ways you arrange the circumstances of my life. I confess I don’t even like the doctrine of grace—I’d rather e...

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.

Jesus, unlike the founder of any other major faith, holds out hope for ordinary human life. Our future is not an ethereal, impersonal form of consciousness. We will not float through the air, but rath...

Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emot...

Sit for thirty minutes and write down at least thirty things you learn from Mark 1:17, which reads, ‘Come, follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will send you out to fish for people.’ Then she instructed us,...