More Quotes by Timothy Keller
Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."
The Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to earth, lived the life we should have lived and died the death we should have died.
Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.
There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
No one is too bad for Jesus. A lot of people think they are too good for Jesus.
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.
Jesus Christ did not suffer so that you would not suffer. He suffered so that when you suffer, you’ll become more like him. The gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.
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?
To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking.
