Quotes About Faith

As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

if there is no God, and life is a chance product of blind material forces, what purpose does human life have? Is it just a chemical accident on a rock flying through the cold, empty reaches of space?

Frank Sheed once said, "The secular novelist sees what is visible; the Christian novelist sees what is there.

Art is a visual language, and Christians have a responsibility to learn that language.

Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of God. Thus, it had no power to resist His will but would obey he rules He had laid down- with mathematical precision.

Many of us don't even know what it means to have a Christian perspective on our work. Oh, we know that being a Christian means being ethical on the job- as Saly put it, "no lying and cheating." But the work itself is typically defined in secular terms as bringing home a paycheck, climbing the career ladder, building a professional reputation.

Christians should be on the front lines fighting to liberate society from its captivity to secular worldviews.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols—if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

philosopher Galen Strawson, the denial of consciousness "is surely the strangest thing that has ever happened in the whole history of human thought." It shows "that the power of human credulity is unlimited, that the capacity of human minds to be gripped by theory, by faith, is truly unbounded." It reveals "the deepest irrationality of the human mind.

That to which your heart clings and entrusts itself is, I say, really your God.

When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.

The only basis for genuine human rights and dignity is a fully biblical worldview.

Nearly all that we call human history … [is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

if you cannot identify the divine in any positive way, how do you even know it is real?

Like every alternative to Christianity, the mechanistic worldview was essentially a substitute religion, a mental idol.

The reason we are justified in trusting our minds is that God designed them to "fit" the world he created.

In every field, Christians must learn critical thinking skills. Otherwise, we may simply absorb idol-based philosophies from the intellectual atmosphere.

You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.

False ideas are the greatest obstacle to the reception of the gospel."13 Not pop culture. Not consumerism. Not moral temptation. False ideas.

Our vocation is not something we do for God- which would put the burden on us to perform and achieve. Instead, it is a way we participate in God's work. For God himself is engaged not only in the work of salvation, but also in the work of preserving and maintaining His creation.

Learning critical thinking is important not only for speaking to people outside the church but also for educating people on the inside

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.