More Quotes by Timothy Keller
Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.
Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.
Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."
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.
