Timothy J. Keller Quote

When God is asked: Remember your great mercy and love, he is being asked to act according to his character. When someone asks God to remember not [my] sins, he or she is asking that God would not act on what he knows. Therefore, to say that the Israelites forgot God is to say that they no longer were controlled by what they knew. We could put it another way. Though they knew who God was and what he wanted, those things were not real to them.

Timothy J. Keller

When God is asked: Remember your great mercy and love, he is being asked to act according to his character. When someone asks God to remember not [my] sins, he or she is asking that God would not act on what he knows. Therefore, to say that the Israelites forgot God is to say that they no longer were controlled by what they knew. We could put it another way. Though they knew who God was and what he wanted, those things were not real to them.

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About Timothy J. Keller

Timothy James Keller (September 23, 1950 – May 19, 2023) was an American Calvinist pastor, preacher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He was the chairman and co-founder of Redeemer City to City, which trains pastors for service around the world. He was also the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and the author of The New York Times bestselling books The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith (2008), Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (2014), and The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (2008). The prequel for the latter is Making Sense of GOD: An Invitation to the Skeptical (2016).