“Truth is not only a matter of offence, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defence in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.”
— Ravi Zacharias
“If truth doesn’t exist, then it would be true that truth doesn’t exist, and once again we arrive at truth. There is no alternative; truth must exist.”
— Nabeel Qureshi
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
— C. S. Lewis
“When you say there’s too much evil in this world, you assume there’s good. When you assume there’s good, you assume there’s such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that’s Who you’re trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there’s no moral Law Giver, there’s no moral law. If there’s no moral law, there’s no good. If there’s no good, there’s no evil. What is your question?”
— Ravi Zacharias
“God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God’s power but mankind’s freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.”
— Peter Kreeft
“Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.”
— Augustine
“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.”
— Dwight L. Moody
“If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
— Francis Chan
“If you can’t see the sun, you will be impressed with a street light. If you’ve never felt thunder and lightning, you’ll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God, you’ll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.”
— John Piper
“So let’s set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is not the opposite of faith. The opposite of reason is irrationality. Do some Christians have irrational faith? Sure. Do some skeptics have unreasonable unbelief? You bet. It works both ways.”
— Greg Koukl
“To continue in atheism, I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn’t have that much faith.”
— Lee Strobel
“Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.”
— John Lennox
“God has provided enough evidence in this life to convince anyone willing to believe, yet he has also left some ambiguity so as not to compel the unwilling.”
— Normal L. Geisler
“The turning point in your life will come when you stop seeking the God you want and begin to seek the God who is.”
— Andy Bannister
“We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.”
— Ravi Zacharias
“My premise is that the popular aphorism that ‘all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different’ simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different. ”
— Ravi Zacharias
“Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.”
— Ravi Zacharias
“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.”
