Timothy Keller Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• 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

• The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.

  Timothy Keller

  Sin, Right Now, Destructive

• Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

  Timothy Keller

  Pride, Knowing, Sin

• 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

• 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

• How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.

  Timothy Keller

  Doe, Looks, Sin

• The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule - it is a failure to treat God as God. It is a sin against his glory

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Prayer, Greatness

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.23, Penguin

• Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

  Timothy Keller

  World, Blame, Problem

  "Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work".

• The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.

  Timothy Keller

  Laughter, Greatness, Worship You

• Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

  Timothy Keller

  Achievement, Affection, Worship

• Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Too Much, Sin

• The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Religious, Sin

• If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

  Timothy Keller

  Forgiving, Sin, Radical

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.74, 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

• At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.

  Timothy Keller

  Humanity, Sin, Lord

• 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

• Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

  Timothy Keller

  Father, Son, Judging

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

• Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Lonely, Perfect, Sin

• I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'

  Timothy Keller

  Circles, Trying, Want

  Source: www.alexchediak.com

• Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

  Timothy Keller

  Sin, Crosses, Sinner

• Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.

  Timothy Keller

  Identity, Sin, Our Relationship

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.163, Penguin

• We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.

  Timothy Keller

  Fighting, Winning, Sin

• If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.

  Timothy Keller

  Hate, Self Love, Who We Are

• The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.

  Timothy Keller

  Joy, Sin, Christ

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