550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

It’s a mistake to think that you must feel love to give it.

If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.

A person’s faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

If you don’t love the poor, you don’t know what God’s done for you.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.