Quotes from Hank Hanegraaff

True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don't understand.

False teachers invite people to come to the Master's table because of what's on it, not because they love the Master.

As Os Guinness explains, Christianity is not true because it works (pragmatism); it is not true because it feels right (subjectivism); it is not true because it is "my truth" (relativism). It is true because it is anchored in the person of Christ. Furthermore, truth is anything that corresponds to reality.

First, the fact that something cannot be seen does not presuppose that it doesn't exist. We know that black holes, electrons, the laws of logic, and the law of gravity exist despite the fact that we cannot see them.

finite creations will never come to the end of exploring the infinite Creator.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

Without choice, love would be rendered meaningless. God is neither a cosmic rapist who forces his love on people, nor is he a cosmic puppeteer who forces people to love him. Instead, God, the personification of love, grants us the freedom to revel in his love or to loathe him. Such freedom provides a persuasive polemic for the existence of hell. If there is freedom then there must also be hell.

Kenneth Copeland: «Como creyente, tiene usted derecho a dar órdenes en el nombre de Jesús. Cada vez que se apoya en la Palabra, está ordenando a Dios hasta cierto nivel porque es Palabra de Él» (Our Covenant with God [KCP Publications, 1987], p. 32).

Mystery is our mind's food. If we truly said, "I have seen everything," we would conclude, as did the author of Ecclesiastes, "all is vanity.

tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life" (John 5: 24).

The subjective texture of our conscious mental experiences—the feeling of pain, the experience of sound, the awareness of color—is different from anything that is simply physical. If the world were only made of matter these subjective aspects of consciousness would not exist. But they do exist! So there must be more to the world than matter.

Far from minimizing biblical truth, metaphors serve as magnifying glasses that identify truth we might otherwise miss.

Even a cursory reading of the Bible is sufficient to recognize that the Bible is a treasury replete with a wide variety of literary styles, ranging from poetry and psalms to historical narratives, didactic epistles, and apocalyptic revelations. To dogmatically assert that the Bible was written in parables and that those who read it literally must be "idiots" is a serious misunderstanding of the literal principle of biblical interpretation.

The Dead Sea Scrolls predated the earliest extant text—Masoretic—by more than a millennium.3 Yet when compared to one another, differences in style and spelling were noted but no significant difference in substance.

Cumulatively, the sheer volume of papyrus and parchment under-girding sacred Scripture dwarf that of any other work in classical history. Consider, for example, Homer's Iliad, Bible to the ancient Greeks. While its manuscript numbers are singularly impressive—650 copies—this pales by comparison to the almost 6,000 Greek manuscript fragments undergirding the New Testament.

The Bible is a rock of diamonds, a chain of pearls, the sword of the Spirit; a chain by which the Christian sails to eternity; the map by which he daily walks; the sundial by which he sets his life; the balance in which he weighs his actions. —THOMAS WATSON

Kenneth Copeland: «Dios no tenía medio de fe duradera o de movimiento en la tierra. Tenía que tener un pacto con alguien… Él tenía que ser invitado, en otras palabras, o no podría venir… Dios está mirando desde el exterior. A fin de tener palabra en la tierra, Él tiene que estar en acuerdo con un hombre aquí» (God's Covenants with Man II [Kenneth Copeland Ministries, 1985], cinta de audio #01-4404, cara 1).