Timothy Keller Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Marriage, Giving

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.31, Penguin

• Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Marriage, Feelings

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.66, Penguin

• 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

• Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.84, Penguin

• Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Sister, Faith

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.48, Penguin

• 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

• Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Giving, Feelings

• The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Death, God

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.304, Penguin

• Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

• When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Christian, Mean

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.211, Penguin

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