Quote

It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.

Timothy Keller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Timothy Keller
Someone
Feel
Feels
Superior
Superiors
Forgive
Forgiving
Impossible

More quotes by Timothy Keller

Image
In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.
Timothy Keller
Image
God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
Timothy Keller
Image
If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you.
Timothy Keller
Image
Love is primarily giving. It’s an action that leads to a feeling, not a feeling first.
Timothy Keller
Image
The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.
Timothy Keller
Image
If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.
Timothy Keller
Image
The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Бvila.....great stuff.
Timothy Keller
Image
Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.
Timothy Keller
Image
When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.
Timothy Keller
Image
At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.
Timothy Keller
Image
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
Timothy Keller
Image
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
Image
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.
Timothy Keller
Image
When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.
Timothy Keller
Image
The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
Timothy Keller
Image
Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God through what Christ has done-therefore I obey.'
Timothy Keller
Image
You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.
Timothy Keller
Image
Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.
Timothy Keller
Image
Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.
Timothy Keller
Image
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