The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

— Timothy Keller

Timothy Keller Quotes

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

— Timothy Keller

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

— Timothy Keller

Covenant community is like air. We don’t miss it until we need it.

— Timothy Keller

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

— Timothy Keller

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

— Timothy Keller

Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

— Timothy Keller

The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.

— Timothy Keller

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.

— Timothy Keller

The very fact that we have access to God’s attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

— Timothy Keller

By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived.

— Timothy Keller

Grace is to be let into a place that you don’t have a right to be.

— Timothy Keller

Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.

— Timothy Keller

Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

— Timothy Keller

Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him.

— Timothy Keller

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

— Timothy Keller

When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God’s glory.

— Timothy Keller

Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.

— Timothy Keller
Book

One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: ‘I’m not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I’ve read by a Christian that didn’t treat me like I was an idiot.’

— Timothy Keller
Book Firsts

Big cities have a lot of ‘younger brothers’ who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with ‘elder brothers’ too.

— Timothy Keller

I wouldn’t venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn’t even want to try to characterize certain ‘circles.’

— Timothy Keller
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