Timothy Keller may refer to:
We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect that it can satisfy our deepest needs and hopes. Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.
The gospel destroys pride because it tells us we are so lost that Jesus had to die for us.
Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.
Truth is more important, freedom is more complex, and Jesus is more liberating than you think.
The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.
Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.
The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.
The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.
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.
If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.
. . . God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver. . . . From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can "just forgive" the perpetrator. . . . But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
If you need something in addition to God to make you happy, that is your true King.
If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.
If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?
Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.
Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.
Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify. ' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.
A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.