Tim Keller
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Quotes from Timothy James Keller: Pastor, preacher, theologian, and Christian apologist (September 23, 1950 – May 19, 2023)
“To be filled with the Spirit is to have your life transformed by an acute consciousness of the glorious person who lives permanently within the walls of your life”
Source: Who Is the Spirit? (Sermon)
Source: Who Is the Spirit? (Sermon)
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
“To be filled with the Spirit is to have your life transformed by an acute consciousness of the glorious person who lives permanently within the walls of your life”
Source: Who Is the Spirit? (Sermon)
Source: Who Is the Spirit? (Sermon)
“Love is an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling that leads to an action”
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
“Love is an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling that leads to an action”
“No matter what your problem with self-control is, if when you’re being tested the Scripture just comes right to mind, it’s an amazing help, because it automatically turns your heart to look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith”
Source: Self-Control (Sermon)
Source: Self-Control (Sermon)
November 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
“No matter what your problem with self-control is, if when you’re being tested the Scripture just comes right to mind, it’s an amazing help, because it automatically turns your heart to look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith”
Source: Self-Control (Sermon)
Source: Self-Control (Sermon)
“The observer of beauty always gets a passion to share that beauty with others. The praise completes the enjoyment (C.S. Lewis). You always talk about what you love. What do you love talking about most? What do you tend most to think about and dwell on when free to do so?”
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
“The observer of beauty always gets a passion to share that beauty with others. The praise completes the enjoyment (C.S. Lewis). You always talk about what you love. What do you love talking about most? What do you tend most to think about and dwell on when free to do so?”
“It is possible to think you are 'madly in love' with someone, and yet it is really just an attraction to someone who can meet your needs”
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
“It is possible to think you are 'madly in love' with someone, and yet it is really just an attraction to someone who can meet your needs”
“This is what the gospel is: Jesus Christ was treated the way we deserve, so now when we believe in him we are treated the way he deserves to be treated … Jesus Christ, who had true glory, emptied himself so we could be full …”
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November 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
“This is what the gospel is: Jesus Christ was treated the way we deserve, so now when we believe in him we are treated the way he deserves to be treated … Jesus Christ, who had true glory, emptied himself so we could be full …”
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“You cannot work on humility directly. It’s a byproduct of something else … Humility is a by-product of wanting something more than wanting to be humble, because if you want to humble, it’s all about you”
Source: Humility (Sermon)
Source: Humility (Sermon)
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“You cannot work on humility directly. It’s a byproduct of something else … Humility is a by-product of wanting something more than wanting to be humble, because if you want to humble, it’s all about you”
Source: Humility (Sermon)
Source: Humility (Sermon)
“God is active beneath the surface of things, even when he seems absent at the time”
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 AM
“God is active beneath the surface of things, even when he seems absent at the time”
“Because Jesus will be the infallible judge, we don't have to be. We can let our grudges go and our revenge die”
November 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
“Because Jesus will be the infallible judge, we don't have to be. We can let our grudges go and our revenge die”
"Discipleship is not just a matter of bending your will to Jesus’ will; it’s melting your heart into a whole new shape. A disciple is not someone who simply sets a new priority; a disciple finds a new identity”
Source: The Call to Discipleship
Source: The Call to Discipleship
November 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
"Discipleship is not just a matter of bending your will to Jesus’ will; it’s melting your heart into a whole new shape. A disciple is not someone who simply sets a new priority; a disciple finds a new identity”
Source: The Call to Discipleship
Source: The Call to Discipleship
“Sin isolates. Grace draws near”
Sin isolates us and tells us we're alone. Grace meets us in the wreckage—it refuses to leave us defined by the damage. Healing begins not in shame but by telling the truth
Source: What is Wrong with the World?
Sin isolates us and tells us we're alone. Grace meets us in the wreckage—it refuses to leave us defined by the damage. Healing begins not in shame but by telling the truth
Source: What is Wrong with the World?
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
“Sin isolates. Grace draws near”
Sin isolates us and tells us we're alone. Grace meets us in the wreckage—it refuses to leave us defined by the damage. Healing begins not in shame but by telling the truth
Source: What is Wrong with the World?
Sin isolates us and tells us we're alone. Grace meets us in the wreckage—it refuses to leave us defined by the damage. Healing begins not in shame but by telling the truth
Source: What is Wrong with the World?
“All money, talent, health, power, and pleasure in the world are God's. But the greatest treasure he can give us is life in his presence”
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
“All money, talent, health, power, and pleasure in the world are God's. But the greatest treasure he can give us is life in his presence”
“Christian peace is not that you stop facing the facts, but you get something in your life, a living power that comes into your life, that enables you to triumph over those facts, lifts you up, over, and through them”
Source: Peace (Sermon)
Source: Peace (Sermon)
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
“Christian peace is not that you stop facing the facts, but you get something in your life, a living power that comes into your life, that enables you to triumph over those facts, lifts you up, over, and through them”
Source: Peace (Sermon)
Source: Peace (Sermon)
“Ultimately only God's opinion counts”
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
“Ultimately only God's opinion counts”
“Almost all of us have parts of our lives we really want to see changed, but change is really hard. And it’s very possible to mistake a morally restrained heart for a supernaturally changed heart …”
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November 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
“Almost all of us have parts of our lives we really want to see changed, but change is really hard. And it’s very possible to mistake a morally restrained heart for a supernaturally changed heart …”
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“Hope in the Bible is life-shaping certainty of something you’re going to have, but you don’t have yet”
Source: Real Joy (Sermon)
Source: Real Joy (Sermon)
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
“Hope in the Bible is life-shaping certainty of something you’re going to have, but you don’t have yet”
Source: Real Joy (Sermon)
Source: Real Joy (Sermon)
“Though a supernaturally changed heart will always lead to a life of service, we have to remember you must not identify with a life of service, because you can have a life of service without having a supernaturally changed heart”
Source: Love and the Fruit of the Spirit (Sermon)
Source: Love and the Fruit of the Spirit (Sermon)
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM
“Though a supernaturally changed heart will always lead to a life of service, we have to remember you must not identify with a life of service, because you can have a life of service without having a supernaturally changed heart”
Source: Love and the Fruit of the Spirit (Sermon)
Source: Love and the Fruit of the Spirit (Sermon)
“God alone is the fountain of the life and love I have looked for in other places, to my misery”
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 AM
“God alone is the fountain of the life and love I have looked for in other places, to my misery”
“See what you've been avoiding. Face it with grace”
Source: What is Wrong with the World?
Source: What is Wrong with the World?
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
“See what you've been avoiding. Face it with grace”
Source: What is Wrong with the World?
Source: What is Wrong with the World?
“Calvin famously began his institutes with the words, 'nearly all wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of god and knowledge of ourselves’”
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 AM
“Calvin famously began his institutes with the words, 'nearly all wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of god and knowledge of ourselves’”
“If God looks down at this world and sees how we’re treating each other, and sees how we’re living, and sees how we’re treating him … If God looks down at this world and is not furious, he is not a father”
Source: How Sin Makes Us Convicts (Sermon)
Source: How Sin Makes Us Convicts (Sermon)
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
“If God looks down at this world and sees how we’re treating each other, and sees how we’re living, and sees how we’re treating him … If God looks down at this world and is not furious, he is not a father”
Source: How Sin Makes Us Convicts (Sermon)
Source: How Sin Makes Us Convicts (Sermon)
“God’s anger in the Bible is not like our anger usually is. It’s not crankiness. It’s not ill temper. It’s not ego. It’s not explosion. It’s not out of control. It’s a settled, fixed, implacable, irrevocable, incorruptible opposition to injustice and evil, …”
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November 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
“God’s anger in the Bible is not like our anger usually is. It’s not crankiness. It’s not ill temper. It’s not ego. It’s not explosion. It’s not out of control. It’s a settled, fixed, implacable, irrevocable, incorruptible opposition to injustice and evil, …”
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“When Jesus Christ was dying on the cross, what was holding him there? His love for you. Nothing else. Nothing else at all”
Source: Indestructible Truth (Sermon)
Source: Indestructible Truth (Sermon)
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
“When Jesus Christ was dying on the cross, what was holding him there? His love for you. Nothing else. Nothing else at all”
Source: Indestructible Truth (Sermon)
Source: Indestructible Truth (Sermon)
“The stories of Christianity don’t work unless they’re true, whereas the stories of other religions work anyway”
Source: Indestructible Truth (Sermon)
Source: Indestructible Truth (Sermon)
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 AM
“The stories of Christianity don’t work unless they’re true, whereas the stories of other religions work anyway”
Source: Indestructible Truth (Sermon)
Source: Indestructible Truth (Sermon)
“What might you give up if you really say, ‘I am going to give myself to Jesus Christ utterly’? Sure, you’re going to give up some things. Do you think you’re going to give up anything like what he gave up?”
Source: How Sin Makes Us Homeless (Sermon)
Source: How Sin Makes Us Homeless (Sermon)
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“What might you give up if you really say, ‘I am going to give myself to Jesus Christ utterly’? Sure, you’re going to give up some things. Do you think you’re going to give up anything like what he gave up?”
Source: How Sin Makes Us Homeless (Sermon)
Source: How Sin Makes Us Homeless (Sermon)