Quotes from Timothy Keller

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

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?

Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.

After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.

Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

Suffering is unbearable if you aren't certain that God is for you and with you.

You are under-qualified for the job of God.

Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.