Timothy Keller
American Pastor
| Date of Birth | : | 23 Sep, 1950 |
| Date of Death | : | 19 May, 2023 |
| Place of Birth | : | Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Profession | : | Author, Preacher |
| Nationality | : | American |
Timothy James Keller was an American Calvinist pastor, preacher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He was the chairman and co-founder of Redeemer City to City, which trains pastors for service around the world.
Quotes
Total 25 Quotes
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?
If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.
Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
