Timothy Keller Quotes

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

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.

The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.

Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

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

Prayer can be simple, but it’s not easy. Nothing great is.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.