Other Quotes

“Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.”

  -Philip Yancey

 

 

“I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning, consequently I assumed that it had none and was able, without much difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in this world is not concerned exclusively with the problem of academics. The philosopher who finds no meaning in this world is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he should not personally do as he wants to do …

For myself, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.”

  - Aldous Huxley from book titled Ends and Means

 

 

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

  -Charles R. Swindoll

 

 

“We need deep and passionate convictions about what Scripture teaches, but when we become convinced that God could never work outside our understanding of Scripture,  we are no longer in a humble position. We have made our understanding of God's truth and God's truth one in the same, and this is a dangerous thing.”

   -Thomas Jones from The Prideful Soul’s Guide to Humility

 

 

“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.”

  -Saint Augustine

 

 

“The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.”

  -Antony Flew

 

 

“Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.”

  -Antony Flew

 

“No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.”

  -Philip Yancey

 

“People come and go and the Bible seems to have a sense of humor as it rises up to outlive its pall bearers.  We are told again and again; ‘the Bible will be a forgotten book, the Bible will be a forgotten book’.  The Bible is still the best seller and the next bestselling book in history after the Bible is “Pilgrim’s Progress”.”

  -Ravi Zacharias

 

“People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to” 

  -Malcolm Muggeridge

 

“The more you recognize your dependence on God, the more thankful you become, and the deeper your love grows.”

  -Thomas Nelson

 

“Darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable, lightness has a call that’s hard to hear…” 

  - Emily Saliers