Timothy Keller Quotes About Pastors

Quotes about: Pastors

• ...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

• Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Fear, Hate

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.172, 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

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

  Timothy Keller

  Funny, Humility, Talking

• God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Prayer

• Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

  Timothy Keller

  Friends, Wisdom, Healthy

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.72, Penguin

• If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

  Timothy Keller

  Motivational, Success, Waiting

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.221, Penguin

• Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.46, Penguin

• Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Christian, Religious

• We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.

  Timothy Keller

  Bible, Religious, Worship

• 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

• 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

• Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

  Timothy Keller

  Forgiveness, Religious, Cost

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.32, Penguin

• [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

  Timothy Keller

  Friendship, Marriage, God

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.85, 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

• To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Christian, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.81, Penguin

• Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

  Timothy Keller

  Life, Faith, Christian

• 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

• Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Religious, Choices

• All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Causes

  Timothy Keller (2016). “Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.22, Harper Collins

• Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

  Timothy Keller

  Faith, Doubt, Religion

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.18, Penguin

• God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

  Timothy Keller

  Life, God, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.44, Penguin

• Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Law

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

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