550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

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

The key to continual and deeper spiritual renewal and revival is the continual re-discovery of the gospel.

Christians don’t believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it’s exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things.

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

Only on the cross do you have a totally holy God and a totally loving God.

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.

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.