550 Quotes by Timothy Keller

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs – you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God’s family freely by grace.

We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross.

Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.

Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.