Timothy Keller Quotes About Humility

Quotes about: Humility

• ...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Humility, Thinking

• Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.

  Timothy Keller

  Funny, Humility, Talking

• The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Confidence, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.179, Penguin

• 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

• Let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.

  Timothy Keller

  Humility, Grace, Grows

• Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Mean, Humility

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