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Timothy Keller Quotes about Heart

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Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us ... He laid aside the infinities and immensities of His being and, at the cost of His life, paid the debt for

Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us ... He laid aside the infinities and immensities of His being and, at the cost of His life, paid the debt for our sins, purchasing us the only place our hearts can rest, in His Father's house. Knowing He did this will transform us from the inside out.

Jesus, Father, Heart

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.33, Penguin

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Heart, Identity, Christ

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

Wise, Heart, Suffering

The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.

Christian, Heart, Assurance

At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.

Christian, Heart, Reality

This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).

Religious, Lying, Heart

Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting… We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow.

Motivation, Heart, Self

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

Heart, Differences, People

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

Life Changing, Heart, Grace

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

Jesus, Heart, Thinking

Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’

Heart, Sorrow, Sin

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

Heart, Idols, Giving

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.

Hate, Heart, Pride

Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation'). Apart from 'grateful remembering' of the gospel, all good works are done then for sinful motives. Mere moral effort may restrain the heart, but does not truly change the heart. Moral effort merely 'jury rigs' the evil of the heart to produce moral behavior out of self-interest. It is only a matter of time before such a thin tissue collapses.

Grateful, Believe, Heart

If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.

Christian, Heart, Sacrifice

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

Heart, Reality, Who We Are

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.

Jesus, Heart, Purpose

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.3, Penguin

If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

Grateful, Heart, Mercy Of God

If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.

Heart, Sight, Trying

Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.45, Penguin

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

Heart, Justice, Grace

Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.13, Penguin

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

Heart, Consolation, Offers

Timothy Keller (2016). “Loving the City: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.56, Zondervan

Public faith means going public with what’s in your heart, with humility and respect for others, as we speak of the truth of the gospel.

Heart, Mean, Humility

All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally valuable to us. They are a currency that we find particularly precious, a language that delivers the message of love to our hearts with the most power. Some types of love are more thrilling and fulfilling to us when we receive them.

Heart, Messages, Ignored

Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.99, Penguin

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

Jesus, Heart, Miracle

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.105, Penguin

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

Heart, Mind, Want

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