Timothy Keller Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Needs, Succeed

• God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Doe, Accepting

• When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.

  Timothy Keller

  Self, Grace, Needs

• There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, God, Christian

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.8, Penguin

• The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.

  Timothy Keller

  Good Life, Two, Differences

• 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. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Sacrifice, Loss

  "Counterfeit Gods: When the Empty Promises of Love, Money and Power Let You Down".

• Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.

  Timothy Keller

  Moving, Commitment, Love Is

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Obedient Master”, p.34, Penguin

• If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

  Timothy Keller

  Grateful, Heart, Mercy Of God

• God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Christian, Hope

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.23, Penguin

• As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.

  Timothy Keller

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

• Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.74, Penguin

• Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.

  Timothy Keller

  Strong, Character, Perfect

• Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Christ, Humbling

• If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Needs, Want

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.56, Penguin

• God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

  Timothy Keller

  Forgiveness, Grace, Perpetrators

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.56, Penguin

• For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

  Timothy Keller

  Keys, Justice For All, Israel

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.34, Penguin

• [T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.

  Timothy Keller

  Views, Idols, Grace

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.61, Penguin

• God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Appreciate, Grace

• If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Solitude, Way

  Timothy Keller (2015). “Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism”, p.168, Penguin

• An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Mistake, Book

• If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Humility, Grace

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.56, Penguin

• So live in the light of the resurrection and renewal of this world, and of yourself, in a glorious, never-ending, joyful dance of grace.

  Timothy Keller

  Light, Grace, World

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God”, p.246, Penguin

• Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

  Timothy Keller

  Life Changing, Heart, Grace

• If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

  Timothy Keller

  Views, Grace, Sin

• There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Justice, Grace

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.13, Penguin

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