550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.

If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.