More Quotes by Timothy Keller
If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
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.
In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
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.
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?
Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
