Timothy Keller Quotes About Sinners

Quotes about: Sinners

• When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.

  Timothy Keller

  Self, Grace, Needs

• Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.

  Timothy Keller

  Forgiveness, Religious, Cost

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.32, Penguin

• 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

  Christian, Too Much, Sin

• The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

  Timothy Keller

  Museums, Broken, Church

• We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know

  Timothy Keller

  Worst, Knows, Sinner

• The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Self

• 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

  Two, Accepted, Sinner

• Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

  Timothy Keller

  Sin, Crosses, Sinner

• If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.

  Timothy Keller

  Hate, Self Love, Who We Are

• The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Church, Should

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