Timothy Keller
American pastor and author, founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 1950-2023
16 quotes.
Quotes by Timothy Keller
- Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties.
- Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.
- God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything that He knows.
- God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.
- 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.
- How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship.
- Jesus didn’t come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
- Prayer turns theology into experience.
- Properly understood, Christianity is by no means the opiate of the people. It’s more like the smelling salts.
- Religious people find God useful. Growing Christians find God beautiful.
- The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
- The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.
- To be loved but not known is superficial.
- Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
- You are worse than you think you are, but also far more loved than you feel you are.
- You don’t realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.