Timothy Keller Quotes About Righteousness

Quotes about: Righteousness

• To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

  Timothy Keller

  Relationship, Marriage, Commitment

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.62, Penguin

• A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

  Timothy Keller

  Gratitude, Self, Righteousness

• Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none.

  Timothy Keller

  Christ, Righteousness

• The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Religious, Sin

• 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

• Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

  Timothy Keller

  Discovery, Self, Ironic

• 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.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Heart, Reality

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