Timothy Keller Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Identity, Christ

• Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

  Timothy Keller

  Heartbreak, God, Christian

• 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

• What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Idols, Giving

• Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.

  Timothy Keller

  Hate, Heart, Pride

• All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

  Timothy Keller

  Change, Religious, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.46, Penguin

• If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Differences, People

• The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Family, Success

• All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. Some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Messages, Ignored

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.99, Penguin

• If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

• The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Heart, Assurance

• 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

• Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Heart, Purpose

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.3, Penguin

• We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

• 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 emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Suicidal, Self

• Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sorrow, Sin

• The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Consolation, Offers

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Loving the City: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.56, Zondervan

• 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

• 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

• It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Believe, Heart

  "Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".

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

  Timothy Keller

  Life Changing, Heart, Grace

• What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Mind, Want

• If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sight, Trying

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.45, Penguin

• Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Christian, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.58, Penguin

• Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ...
  - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated,
  - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sound, Adults

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Gospel Renewal: Center Church, Part Two”, p.74, Harper Collins

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