Keller's Quotes

#1. There are also some moving sections about World War II in Anthony Burgess's Any Old Iron, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, Kit Reed's At War As Children, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, and Nancy Willard's Things Invisible to See.

Nancy Pearl

#2. Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.

Billy Graham

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. We need his kingdom to "come." Calvin believed there were two ways God's kingdom comes - through the Spirit, who "corrects our desires," and through the Word of God, which "shapes our thoughts.

Timothy Keller

#11. There is no evil that the father's love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

Timothy Keller

#12. A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

Timothy Keller

#13. Because we put ourselves in God's place, He put Himself in our place.

Timothy Keller

#14. Our prayer is that as you read, you'll be struck not by the contents of this book, but by the book it's helping you open up; and that you'll praise not the author of this book, but the One he is pointing you to.

Timothy J. Keller

#15. When one thing, the right thing, is set in motion, it can topple many things. And that's not all.

Gary Keller

#16. Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT ... the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.

Timothy Keller

#17. There's only one story, the story of your life.

Helen Keller

#18. In the beauty of the world, we are to see God's existence. In the brokenness of the world, we are to see God's justice. As we do, we run back to the place where we see God's mercy: the cross.

Timothy Keller

#19. Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand.

Helen Keller

#20. Often buyers make the mistake of believing they must have a specific home in mind first. That's counterproductive, counter-successful thinking. Moving through the loan application process early is the most productive and most successful.

Keller Gary

#21. 'It's A Wonderful Life' still makes me cry happy tears, and my more recent favorite, 'Elf.'

Mary Page Keller

#22. When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

Timothy Keller

#23. The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King.

Timothy Keller

#24. Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'ask, seek, knock' in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God's grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities.

Timothy Keller

#25. The only love that won't disappoint you is one that can't change, that can't be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God's love is the only thing like that.

Timothy Keller

#26. The ability to control oneself to determine one's actions is a pretty powerful idea. Base

Gary Keller

#27. Righteous Lord, I have many who falsely accuse me. Defend me from them! But I also know my sin, and my heart rightly accuses me. I rest in Jesus's atoning death for me.

Timothy J. Keller

#28. When a newspaper posed the question, "What's Wrong with the World?" the Catholic thinker G. K. Chesterton reputedly wrote a brief letter in response: "Dear Sirs: I am. Sincerely Yours, G. K. Chesterton." That is the attitude of someone who has grasped the message of Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#29. The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

Timothy Keller

#30. To "hallow" God's name is not merely to live righteous lives but to have a heart of grateful joy toward God - and even more, a wondrous sense of his beauty. We do not revere his name unless he "captivate[s] us with wonderment for him."198

Timothy Keller

#31. Gifts are abilities God gives us to meet the needs of others in Christ's name.

Timothy Keller

#32. The path Jesus takes you on may look like it's taking you to one dead end after another. Nevertheless, the thread does not work in reverse. If you just obey Jesus and follow it forward, it will do its work.

Timothy J. Keller

#33. Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

Helen Keller

#34. Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

Thomas Keller

#35. While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

Timothy Keller

#36. In the deserted men's restroom at the back of Middleton Community College, Sam Keller knelt on the tile, braced his hands against Keith Jameson's thighs, and broke his mother's heart.

Heidi Cullinan

#37. The essence of Christian obedience is not do's and don'ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#38. Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.

Karl Popper

#39. There's a lot of stuff they don't teach you in the mythical editors' school. They don't teach you that you're going to have to spend a lot of your life in crisis management.

Bill Keller

#40. Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef.

Thomas Keller

#41. When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.

Timothy Keller

#42. That's what goalkeeping is all about. It's really having nothing to do at times, and then having to make sure you are concentrating and ready to make the save when called upon. Going in 1-0 down would have been a travesty.

Kasey Keller

#43. Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

Timothy Keller

#44. When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experience in her own fantasy.

Helen Keller

#45. Sleep. It's like sex. You know it's good, but you don't know just how good until you're not getting any.

R.J. Keller

#46. Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Helen Keller

#47. If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

Helen Keller

#48. I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

Timothy Keller

#49. It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood.

Helen Keller

#50. We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.

Thomas Keller

#51. You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so that at any moment, when inspiration happens, you're ready for it and you interpret it.

Thomas Keller

#52. Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

Timothy Keller

#53. You can't really make a deal until you've found an opportunity, and you can't really know if it's an opportunity until you understand value.

Gary Keller

#54. It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears

Helen Keller

#55. If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

Ric Keller

#56. The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God's good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain.

Timothy Keller

#57. On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

Timothy Keller

#58. She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead - chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?

William Gibson

#59. The gospel is an exclusive truth but it's the most inclusive exclusive truth in the world.

Timothy Keller

#60. Not just Mexico. Columbus should be the home of any big game. There's absolutely no doubt about that.To be able to play in front of a decidedly pro-American crowd for both Mexico games, and to win them both 2-0, is fantastic for everybody.

Kasey Keller

#61. John Terry is the perfect skipper. It's obvious Chelsea means everything to him. When he makes those last ditch blocks, team-mates can't help but be inspired.

Kasey Keller

#62. Unchain yourself from the guilt that you aren't doing something right, that you're not leaving the "right" legacy, and BE your real self. Just that. That's all the legacy you're here to give - the genuine best of you.

Wendy Keller

#63. 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

#64. Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

Timothy Keller

#65. We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

Timothy Keller

#66. Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.

Timothy Keller

#67. If today your company doesn't know what its ONE Thing is, then the company's ONE Thing is to find out.

Gary Keller

#68. The Bible does not say that God speaks and then proceeds to act, that he names and then proceeds to shape - but that God's speaking and acting are the same thing. His word is his action, his divine power.

Timothy Keller

#69. As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

Timothy Keller

#70. Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

Bill Keller

#71. The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike - who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.

Thomas Perez

#72. No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kind of restaurants people might imagine.

Thomas Keller

#73. Praying the Lord's Prayer forces us to look for things to thank and praise God for in our dark times, and it presses us to repent and seek forgiveness during times of prosperity and success. It disciplines

Timothy Keller

#74. Idolatry is attached to everything. All of our bitterness, all our impurity, all our malice, all of our problems, everything that troubles us is a result of idolatry. And what is idolatry? It's taking a good thing and making it an ultimate thing.

Timothy Keller

#75. Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that's meaningful.

Gary Keller

#76. Christianity is not just for the strong; it's for everyone.

Timothy Keller

#77. We should listen, study, think, reflect, and ponder the Scriptures until there is an answering response in our hearts and minds. It may be one of shame or of joy or of confusion or of appeal - but that response to God's speech is then truly prayer and should be given to God.

Timothy J. Keller

#78. Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard ... the words..they sound alike."
What do you mean?"
Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.

Jodi Picoult

#79. Mediocrity has become something that's acceptable," Keller says, "and in many cases, something that is aspirational." To

Dan Charnas

#80. One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates ...

Helen Keller

#81. When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style.

Thomas Keller

#82. There is no sin that is a match for God's grace.

Timothy Keller

#83. If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.

Timothy Keller

#84. It's so easy, a child could do it.

Elaine J. Keller

#85. It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

Bill Keller

#86. To make a real difference . . . [there would have to be] a reappropriation of the idea of vocation or calling, a return in a new way to the idea of work as a contribution to the good of all and not merely as a means to one's own advancement.3

Timothy Keller

#87. When you say, "I'll serve, as long as I'm getting benefits from it," that's not actually serving people; it's serving yourself through them. That's not circling them, orbiting around them; it's using them, getting them to orbit around you.

Timothy J. Keller

#88. Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.

Timothy Keller

#89. The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

Timothy Keller

#90. When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

Timothy Keller

#91. Now I know that you love me more than anything in the world." That's what "the fear of God" means.

Timothy J. Keller

#92. We are continuing God's work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever we elaborate and "unfold" creation beyond where it was when we found it, we are following God's pattern of creative cultural development.

Timothy Keller

#93. It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

Thomas Keller

#94. Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path.

Timothy Keller

#95. And if you determine to run your marriage your way, you're in for a lot of trouble, because marriage is God's institution.

Timothy Keller

#96. It's important to remember the Gospel is a story; not a set of bullet points.

Timothy Keller

#97. On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

Timothy Keller

#98. Cultural engagement in preaching must never be for the sake of appearing "relevant" but rather must be for the purpose of laying bare the listener's life foundations.

Timothy J. Keller

#99. It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended.

Timothy Keller

#100. Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.

Thomas Keller