If Jesus Goes to the Cross Rises Again Keller

Tim Keller, founder and pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church building in New York City and New York Times bestselling author, is a powerful voice for Christian truth in a secular world. He is too the co-founder of The Gospel Coalition (with D.A. Carson) and has helped plant gospel-centered churches around the world through Redeemer Urban center-to-Urban center.

From reading and searching, I have compiled many of the best Timothy Keller quotes. About come from his books while a few come from his Twitter @TimKellerNYC. (A quick Google search will help you find the origin of a quote if you want it.)

Some of the Best Books past Tim Keller

• Apologetics: The Reason for God & Making Sense of God (my review)
• Christian Living: The Prodigal God, Counterfeit Gods, Encounters with Jesus, Every Good Endeavor, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (my review), Walking with God through Pain and Suffering, Jesus the King
• Devotionals: The Songs of Jesus: A Yr of Daily Devotions in the Psalms (my review), God's Wisdom for Navigating Life: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs, The Expert Book Company ninety-Day Devotionals
• Expository Guides & Bible Studies: Judges, Galatians, Romans one-7 and 8-16
• Ministry: Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your Metropolis, Ministries of Mercy, Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism (my review)

Tim Keller Quotes on Apologetics, Christianity, and Doubts

"Whatever person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her fashion, is a stranger to the cantankerous."

"Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's most how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you."

"If yous are intolerant of intolerant people then y'all are intolerant and doing the same thing yous accuse of others."

"It is no more narrow to merits that one religion is right than to claim that one way to think virtually all religions (namely that all are equal) is right. We are all exclusive in our beliefs about religion, but in different ways."

"Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts… It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs but because yous inherited them."

"If Jesus rose from the expressionless, and then y'all have to take all that he said; if he didn't rising from the expressionless, and so why worry about whatever of what he said? The result on which everything hangs is not whether or not you lot like his teaching but whether or non he rose from the expressionless."

"Ironically, the insistence that doctrines exercise non affair is really a doctrine itself."

"Properly understood, Christianity is by no means the opiate of the people. It's more like the smelling salts."

"Two things we want so desperately, glory and relationship, tin coexist only in God."

"Underneath all notions of justice is a set up of religion assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged."

"If the evolutionary machinery of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, and then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to exist horribly incorrect, unfair, and unjust?"

"Customs service has become a patch for morality. You lot can devote your life to community service and be a full schmuck."

"To stay away from Christianity because office of the Bible's education is offensive to y'all assumes that if in that location is a God he wouldn't have any views that upset you. Does that conventionalities make sense?"

"How could you peradventure know that no religion tin can run across the whole truth unless yous yourself take the superior, comprehensive cognition of spiritual reality you just claimed none of the religions take?"

"The basic premise of religion—that if you lot live a skillful life, things will go well for yous—is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet he had a life filled with the feel of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture."

"Certainly we should exist very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'inquire, seek, knock' in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God's grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities."

"It is not the force of your religion but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong religion in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a small branch."

"Christian communicators must show that nosotros remember (or at to the lowest degree sympathise) very well what it is like not to believe."

"To move from religion to secularism is not then much a loss of faith as a shift into a new ready of beliefs and into a new community of faith, one that draws the lines between orthodoxy and heresy in different places."

"The annunciation that science is the but arbiter of truth is non itself a scientific finding. It is a belief."

"As long equally you do not brainstorm with an imposed philosophical bias against the possibility of miracles, the Resurrection has every bit much testament every bit any other aboriginal historical result."

"The problem with self-esteem – whether it is high or low – is that, every single twenty-four hours, we are in the courtroom."

Why is the Bible reliable?

Tim Keller Quotes on the Gospel and the Person of Jesus Christ

"The gospel is not just the A-B-C'south just the A-Z of Christianity."

"The irony of the gospel is that the simply way to be worthy of it is to admit that you're completely unworthy of it."

"Y'all don't realize Jesus is all you demand until Jesus is all you lot have."

"A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your avails are not really yours, just God's."

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

"God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a costless gift."

"…God'due south grace and forgiveness, while gratuitous to the recipient, are always plush for the giver…. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged tin can "just forgive" the perpetrator…. But when y'all forgive, that means yous absorb the loss and the debt. You acquit it yourself. All forgiveness, so, is costly."

"The gospel is this: Nosotros are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we always dared believe, yet at the very aforementioned fourth dimension we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope."

"Dearest without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial well-nigh our flaws. Truth without dear is harshness; it gives u.s. data but in such a way that nosotros cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and however also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful delivery strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God'southward mercy and grace."

"Mercy and forgiveness must be gratis and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to exercise something to merit it, then information technology isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness."

"The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am and then loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and withal I have nothing to bear witness to anyone. I practise non call back more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I call back of myself less."

"God's Kingdom is "nowadays in its beginnings, but still hereafter in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no modify now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all alter now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while nosotros're not nonetheless what we volition exist, we're also no longer what we used to be."

"We modern people call up of miracles as the suspension of the natural guild, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells united states that God did not originally make the globe to accept disease, hunger, and death in information technology. Jesus has come to redeem where information technology is wrong and heal the world where information technology is broken. His miracles are not merely proofs that he has power just too wonderful foretastes of what he is going to practise with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the globe we all desire is coming."

"You don't realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have."

"If a person has grasped the pregnant of God's grace in his heart, he volition do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, only in his centre he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, information technology reveals that at best he doesn't sympathise the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make y'all just."

"Religious people find God useful. Growing Christians find God beautiful."

"The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of united states of america is building our identity on something besides Jesus."

"If a person has grasped the significant of God'due south grace in his center, he will exercise justice."

"Jesus himself is the main argument for why we should believe Christianity."

"If y'all want God'southward grace, all yous need is need, all y'all demand is nothing."

"Christ's miracles were not the break of the natural guild simply the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality in one case again–a world of peace and justice, without expiry, disease, or conflict."

Tim Keller: What is the Gospel?

Tim Keller Quotes on Holiness, Sin, Evil, & Idolatry

"If our identity is in our piece of work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts."

"What is an idol? It is anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than than God, anything yous seek to give you what just God can give."

"If God is not at the eye of your life, something else is."

"Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin."

"When people say, "I know God forgives me, only I can't forgive myself," they mean that they accept failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God'south."

"Humility is and then shy. If you brainstorm talking about it, it leaves."

"If you understand what holiness is, you come to see that existent happiness is on the far side of holiness, not the near side."

"When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an 'idol,' something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your acrimony is absolute. Your acrimony is really the fashion the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you lot observe that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to wait deeper and ask, 'What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?' It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not exist able to chief your anger."

"If yous wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before y'all practice something, you will await forever."

"God will allow evil only to the degree that it brings about the very reverse of what it intends."

"Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action along. When yous sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the volition, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-command. Sin is the suicidal action of the self confronting itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power."

"The surreptitious to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. Yous need dandy worship. You lot demand weeping worship. Yous need glorious worship. You need to sense God's greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved past who God is and what he has done for yous."

"If you have a God infinite and powerful enough for you to be angry at for allowing evil, then y'all must at the aforementioned time accept a God infinite enough to have sufficient reasons for allowing that evil."

Keller's definition of idolatry: "What is an idol? It is anything more of import to y'all than God, anything that absorbs your center and imagination more than God, annihilation y'all seek to give you what only God tin requite."

Tim Keller Speaking on his book Counterfeit Gods

Tim Keller Quotes on Friendship, Love, Marriage, and Relationships

"Like a surgeon, friends cutting you in social club to heal you."

"Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints."

"Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when ii people, speaking the truth in dearest to one another, journey together to the aforementioned horizon."

"To be loved but non known is superficial. To be known and not loved is our great fear—but to exist known and loved, that transforms you lot."

"Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of class that can be true. But it is truer to say that deportment of love tin atomic number 82 consistently to feelings of love."

"Marriage [is] 2 flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world."

"In many areas of life, liberty is not so much the absence of restrictions as finding the correct ones, the liberating restrictions."

"We would exist more patient and kind with people and less hurt if we regularly remembered that nosotros all have deep core faults."

"Information technology is the illusion that if nosotros find our one true soul mate, everything wrong with united states volition be healed; and no human being can alive up to that."

"In abrupt contrast with our civilisation, the Bible teaches that the essence of wedlock is a sacrificial commitment to the good of the other. That means that dear is more fundamentally activeness than emotion."

"Marriage is so much similar salvation and our human relationship with Christ that Paul says you can't understand marriage without looking at the gospel."

"Here'southward what it means to fall in dear. It is to look at some other person and get a glimpse of the person God is creating, and to say, "I see who God is making you, and it excites me! I desire to be part of that. I want to partner with y'all and God in the journey you are taking to his throne. And when we go there, I volition look at your magnificence and say, 'I always knew you could be similar this. I got glimpses of it on earth, merely at present wait at yous!'"

"What marriage is for: Information technology is a way for 2 spiritual friends to assistance each other on their journey to become the persons God designed them to be."

Timothy Keller: "The Meaning of Marriage" | Talks at Google

Tim Keller Quotes on Preaching, Gospel-Centered Ministry building, Church building Planting

"When you listen and read i thinker, y'all become a clone… two thinkers, yous get confused… ten thinkers, you lot'll begin developing your own phonation… two or three hundred thinkers, yous get wise and develop your voice."

"God directs his people not only to worship but to sing his praises "earlier the nations." We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them."

"If a group believes God favors them because of their particularly truthful doctrine, ways of worship, and ethical behavior, their attitude toward those without these things can be hostile."

"Sermons aren't but to brand truth clear to the mind-simply to make information technology existent to the heart. Change happens by feeding the imagination new beauties."

"The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints."

"Churches that are filled with cocky-righteous, exclusive, insecure, angry, moralistic people are extremely unattractive."

"While the divergence between a bad sermon and a adept sermon is mainly the responsibility of the preacher, the difference between skilful preaching and slap-up preaching lies mainly in the piece of work of the Holy Spirit."

"To reach people gospel preachers must challenge the culture's story at points of confrontation and finally retell the culture'southward story, equally it were, revealing how its deepest aspirations for good tin exist fulfilled only in Christ."

"To reach people gospel preachers must challenge the culture's story at points of confrontation and finally retell the culture'southward story, as it were, revealing how its deepest aspirations for adept can be fulfilled simply in Christ."

"Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but too by feeding the imagination new beauties."

On gospel-logic moves in a sermon, utilize: "'Here's what you must do,' then 'Here'south why you lot can't do it,' then 'Here'southward the ane who did it for you,' and finally 'Here's how faith in him enables you lot to do information technology too.' Post-obit this logic in a sermon ways that oftentimes you lot bring in practical application in more than i place."

"John Frame's 'tri-perspectivalism' helps me sympathize Willow. The Willow Creek manner churches have a 'kingly' accent on leadership, strategic thinking, and wise administration. The danger there is that the mechanical obscures how organic and spontaneous church life can be. The Reformed churches accept a 'prophetic' emphasis on preaching, teaching, and doctrine. The danger there is that we can take a naïve and unBiblical view that, if we just expound the Word faithfully, everything else in the church — leader development, community building, stewardship of resources, unified vision — volition just happen by themselves. The emerging churches have a 'priestly' emphasis on customs, liturgy and sacraments, service and justice. The danger there is to view 'customs' as the magic bullet in the same way Reformed people view preaching."

Sermon: The Centrality of the Gospel

Related Resource: Preaching to the Soils: The Kinds of People to Consider as You Apply Scripture in Preaching (Expansive Listing)

Tim Keller Quotes on Prayer & Spiritual Disciplines

"Prayer is how God gives us and so many of the unimaginable things he has for united states. Indeed, prayer makes it safe for God to give us many of the things nosotros nigh desire. It is the fashion we know God, the way we finally treat God as God. Prayer is simply the key to everything we need to do and be in life."

"God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything that He knows."

"To pray is to take that nosotros are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything."

"Prayer turns theology into experience."

"Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle—yet the way to reality. At that place is nothing more important, or harder, or richer, or more life-altering. There is admittedly nothing and then slap-up as prayer."

"Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Discussion and his grace, which somewhen becomes a full encounter with him."

"To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious dominion—it is a failure to treat God as God."

"God is very patient with us when we are desperate. Pour out your soul to him."

"By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and run into facets of Jesus that yous accept not yet perceived."

"Jesus Christ taught his disciples to pray, healed people with prayers, denounced the corruption of the temple worship (which, he said, should exist a 'house of prayer'), and insisted that some demons could be cast out simply through prayer. He prayed often and regularly with fervent cries and tears (Heb. five:7), and sometimes all night. The Holy Spirit came upon him and anointed him equally he was praying (Luke 3:21–22), and he was transfigured with the divine glory equally he prayed (Luke 9:29). When he faced his greatest crunch, he did so with prayer. We hear him praying for his disciples and the church on the nighttime before he died (John 17:1–26) so petitioning God in agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. Finally, he died praying." (27)

"Our prayers should ascend out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to. . . . The wedding ceremony of the Bible and prayer anchors your life downwards in the existent God."

"Prayer—though it is often draining, even an agony—is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible."

Tim Keller Quotes on Suffering and Facing Arduousness

"Suffering tin refine us rather than destroy usa because God himself walks with u.s. in the fire."

"When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives simply that we never were."

"While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life's joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world's sorrows, tasting the coming joy."

"Merely because yous can't see or imagine a skillful reason why God would allow something bad to happen doesn't hateful there can't exist one."

"One of the main means we move from abstruse knowledge about God to a personal meet with him as a living reality is through the furnace of affliction."

Tim Keller – The Theology of the Cantankerous and Walking with a Limp

Tim Keller Quotes on Piece of work, Money, and Vocation

"If the God of the Bible exists, and at that place is a True Reality beneath and backside this one, and this life is not the just life, then every adept endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can affair forever."

"A job is a vocation simply if someone else calls you to do it for them rather than for yourself. And and then our work can be a calling merely if information technology is reimagined equally a mission of service to something beyond simply our ain interests. Thinking of work mainly as a ways of cocky-fulfillment and cocky-realization slowly crushes a person."

"If y'all have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which yous were born, to your talents and capacities and wellness, none of which yous earned. In brusque, all your resources are in the stop the souvenir of God."

"The material cosmos was made past God to exist adult, cultivated, and cared for in an endless number of ways through human labor. But even the simplest of these ways is important. Without them all, homo life cannot flourish."

"If God's purpose for your task is that you serve the homo community, and so the way to serve God best is to do the chore as well equally it tin can be done."

Tim Keller on Faith and Work

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