Quotes from Eric Metaxas

David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant.

I think that there are deceptive forces out there that will try to lead us away from God, and we really do need to be careful.

God designed humans to live in community.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.

For many of us, this is very painful, pulling the lever for someone many think odious. But please consider this: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not to vote is to vote. God will not hold us guiltless.

Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.

When you have a biblical idea of men's strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others.

You can't fool children.

Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.

I'm willing to give Pat Robertson a pass when he says things he shouldn't. That's because for every wacky, regrettable thing he says, he does a hundred thousand non-wacky good things that you'll never hear about on television.

Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'

America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.

We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.

Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.

Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.

Part of my life's thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a divide between the secular world and the faith world.

If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle.

One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.

The Bible is filled with stories about angels, but many of us have had our view of angels confused by popular misconceptions about them, the principal of which is that angels do not actually exist anymore than fairies do, or wood nymphs or water sprites. But they do exist, and the Bible attests to their existence innumerable times.

Even if you aren't a believer, there are incredible stories in the 'good book' that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is - and by the way, Shakespeare's plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references.

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.