Timothy Keller Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Timothy Keller quotes, Timothy Keller sayings, and Timothy Keller proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you. Timothy Keller
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you. Timothy Keller
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves. Timothy Keller
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us. Timothy Keller
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. Timothy Keller
We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart. Timothy Keller
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
People are messy; therefore, relationships will be messy. Don't be surprised by messiness. Timothy Keller
Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely. Timothy Keller
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking. Timothy Keller
Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God. Timothy Keller
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others. Timothy Keller
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it. Timothy Keller
Pastors must practice a two-fold program of cultural engagement: deconstruction and demystification of cultural idols, and reconstruction and re-enchantment of a gospel-shaped worldview. Timothy Keller
Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things. Timothy Keller
Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things. Timothy Keller
Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God. Timothy Keller
Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength. Timothy Keller
Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners. Timothy Keller
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
But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength. Timothy Keller
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
Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough. Timothy Keller
Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough. Timothy Keller
There's nothing that makes you more miserable or less interesting than self absorption . Timothy Keller