550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.

Faith in God’s promises means not always following the expected, rational path.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus – the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer – is another.

If you aren’t constantly astonished at God’s grace in your solitude, there’s no way it can happen in public.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

If we give God things in hope that they’ll earn us blessings, we’re really not doing anything for him. It’s for ourselves.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.