Quotes from Timothy Keller

The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission.

It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go.

The Gospel does not promise you better life circumstances; it promises you a better life.

We get angry when we feel like God owes us a better life than we have.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.

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

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not 'used' the gospel in and on all parts of our life.

Look at Jesus Christ. Every time he was in trouble he used the Word of God. When he was tempted he used the Word. When he was suffering on the cross he used the Word.

Every treasure on this earth says, 'Give your life to purchase me.' Jesus says 'I'm the one treasure who died to purchase you.'

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.

The gospel is not just the "ABCs" but the "A-to-Z" of the Christian life.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.