Quotes from Josh McDowell

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

Most Christians when asked what is the essence of the Christian faith will say it is all in the rules to be acceptable by God. That is anti-Christian, but they don't know that.

Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.

It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.

You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

My greatest asset now is my focus.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.