550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

Revival occurs when those who think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

A Christian is somebody whose eyes have been opened, who admits that Jesus is not what you expected, but he’s what you need.

No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career – something will inevitably ruin it.

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

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.

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.

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.

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.