Quotes from Timothy Keller

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

Change won't happen through 'trying harder' but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God's grace appears to you.

We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

God's grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

If you are a child of God, you don't lose your status if you have a bad week.

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.