Timothy Keller Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

  Timothy Keller

  Love Is, Effort, Desire

• Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.

  Timothy Keller

  Grateful, Believe, Heart

• At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Heart, Reality

• Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

  Timothy Keller

  Effort, Merit, Moral

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.69, Penguin

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