Timothy Keller Quotes about Feelings

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Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

Timothy Keller

Feelings, Significance

Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.

Timothy Keller

Love, Giving, Feelings

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

Timothy Keller

Love, Marriage, Feelings

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.66, Penguin

To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God.

Timothy Keller

Feelings, Sparks, Good Feeling

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

Timothy Keller

Feelings, Sometimes, Appearance

Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.

Timothy Keller

Marriage, Giving, Feelings

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.63, Penguin