550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.

It’s important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive.

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.