550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

Important reminder: It’s not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own.

We don’t merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.

There is a direct relationship between a person’s grasp and experience of God’s grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.