Top 100 Keller Quotes
#1. Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
Timothy Keller
#2. It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.
Helen Keller
#3. 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.
Timothy Keller
#4. Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
Helen Keller
#5. You have been saved through a dying sacrifice, so you are free to be a living one.
Timothy J. Keller
#6. The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
Helen Keller
#8. To understand the Scripture is not simply to get information about God. If attended to with trust and faith, the Bible is the way to actually hear God speaking and also to meet God himself.
Timothy J. Keller
#9. Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
Helen Keller
#10. Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
Timothy Keller
#11. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Helen Keller
#12. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
#13. I distrust the rash optimism in this country that cries, "Hurrah, we're all right! This is the greatest nation on earth," when there are grievances that call loudly for redress.
Helen Keller
#14. Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
Helen Keller
#15. The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Helen Keller
#16. But contemporary capitalism increasingly has the power to eliminate the intimacy and accountability of human relationships. So in the marketplace, as in every field, there is an urgent need for those with a powerful compass.
Timothy Keller
#17. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Helen Keller
#18. If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere
Timothy Keller
#19. The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
Helen Keller
#20. buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others - and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.
Gary Keller
#22. Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
Helen Keller
#23. Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
Helen Keller
#25. Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
Helen Keller
#26. A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."
James Keller
#27. Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
Timothy Keller
#28. Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.
Thomas Keller
#29. Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.
Timothy Keller
#30. Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
Robert Charles Wilson
#31. Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.
Timothy Keller
#32. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
Helen Keller
#33. Self-righteousness is always self-condemnatory. And self-righteousness is the preserve of the moralist.
Timothy Keller
#34. No person or group ever conforms completely to a type.
Timothy Keller
#35. It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me ... if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me ...
Helen Keller
#36. Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
Helen Keller
#37. Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.
Timothy Keller
#38. The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
Helen Keller
#39. There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
Timothy Keller
#40. So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
Helen Keller
#41. The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller
#42. How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
Timothy Keller
#44. It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.
Timothy Keller
#45. Temptation isn't impersonal - there is an actual enemy doing the tempting. Mark treats Satan as a reality, not a myth. This is certainly jarring in contemporary cultures that are skeptical of the existence of the supernatural, let alone the demonic.
Timothy Keller
#46. Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.
Timothy Keller
#48. Simon Gathercole argues that both Paul and the Gospel writers considered the good news to have three basic elements: the identity of Jesus as Son of God and Messiah, the death of Jesus for sin and justification, and the establishment of the reign of God and the new creation.12
Timothy Keller
#49. I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Helen Keller
#50. People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))
Helen Keller
#51. If you are a child of God, you don't lose your status if you have a bad week.
Timothy Keller
#52. I make a joke that I'm the Internet curmudgeon, but 'wary' is a good way to put it.
Bill Keller
#53. People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.
Timothy Keller
#54. I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
Helen Keller
#55. Augustine writes: "We love God, therefore, for what He is in Himself, and [we love] ourselves and our neighbors for His sake." That
Timothy J. Keller
#56. Sound preaching arises out of two loves - love of the Word of God and love of people - and from them both a desire to show people God's glorious grace.
Timothy Keller
#57. Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
#58. My friends have made the story of my life.
Helen Keller
#59. The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.
Bill Keller
#60. Success is measured by the memories you create.
Thomas Keller
#61. We know God will answer us when we call because one terrible day he did not answer Jesus when he called.
Timothy Keller
#62. The doctrine of grace and redemption keeps us from seeing any person or situation as hopeless.
Timothy Keller
#64. When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Helen Keller
#65. If earthly fathers, who are sinful, ordinarily want to make their children happy, "how much more" committed is our perfect heavenly Father to our well-being and happiness?
Timothy J. Keller
#66. It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.
Helen Keller
#67. The Gospel is this: You're more sinful, evil and weak than you'd ever believe. But you're more valued, accepted and loved than you dared hope.
Timothy Keller
#68. When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.
Helen Keller
#69. We only grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know (1 Timothy 1:15) - and that if Jesus came to die for us, there is no one that he would not die for.
Timothy Keller
#70. But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.
Thomas Keller
#71. Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Timothy Keller
#72. You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.
Thomas Keller
#73. If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?
Timothy Keller
#74. The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
Timothy Keller
#75. It is the illusion that if we find our one true soul mate, everything wrong with us will be healed; but that makes the lover into God, and no human being can live up to that.
Timothy Keller
#76. Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
Bill Keller
#77. When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit.
Gary W. Keller
#78. Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
Helen Keller
#79. After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.
Ric Keller
#80. If you have to run away from something that used to be an idol, you're actually still enslaved by it. It's still controlling you.
Timothy Keller
#81. Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
Timothy Keller
#82. It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.
Timothy Keller
#83. 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.
Timothy Keller
#84. Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.
Helen Keller
#85. To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.
Timothy Keller
#86. I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
Helen Keller
#87. All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
Timothy Keller
#88. Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world.
Timothy Keller
#89. A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for Satan.
Bill Keller
#90. God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?
Timothy Keller
#91. Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God.
Timothy Keller
#92. It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied.
Timothy Keller
#93. Reweaving shalom means to sacrificially thread, lace, and press your time, goods, power, and resources into the lives and needs of others.
Timothy Keller
#94. If Christianity is really true it will be offending and correcting you somewhere.
Timothy Keller
#95. God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.
Timothy Keller
#96. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#97. Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
Timothy Keller
#98. the fear of God" is increased by an experience of God's grace and forgiveness. What it describes is a loving, joyful awe and wonder before the greatness of God.
Timothy J. Keller
#99. It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
Helen Keller
#100. Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from ... from ... wait, what was I saying?
Bill Keller
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