550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.

Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

If you can’t show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart.

While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place.

Unless you point to the good news of God’s grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God’s judgement.

All I know is, if I don’t care about the poor, if my church doesn’t care about the poor, that’s evil.