Quotes from Eric Metaxas

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who also was and is his God.

The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

we've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.

It is a question of the freedom of God, which finds its strongest evidence precisely in that God freely chose to be bound to historical human beings and to be placed at the disposal of human beings. God is free not from human beings but for them. Christ is the word of God's freedom.

Describing Bonhoeffer's demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with "with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom.

Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.

The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.

A Christian worldview impacts every area of life. Including making your house a home.

Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship.

We're commanded by God to worship God with our mind.

Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.

Everyone needs to stop and breathe and look at how redefining marriage will have a hugely chilling effect on religious liberty in America.

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.

Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?

Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world.

As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I've published humor in the 'New York Times' and 'Atlantic,' among other places.

The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.

As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God's ability to provide for or protect us.

The truth is many singles deeply desire and pray for marriage.

Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.