Quotes About Faith

Africa at the start of the twentieth century, Christians were only 9 percent of the population; today they are 44 percent.

We sin because we want something in the created world more than we want the Creator.

Randall concludes, "When science seemed to take God out of the universe, men had to deify some natural force, like 'evolution.

We've limited Christianity to salvation and sanctification," he said. But "Christianity is the truth about everything.

Lecrae's message is that we do not need to be afraid of cultural differences because Christianity has the resources to speak to every culture.

Christian art should grow out of the robust confidence that nothing is unredeemable—that Jesus himself entered into the darkest levels of human experience and transformed them into sources of life and renewal.

The humane position, and the biblical position, is that individuals are under no obligation to affirm as true something they have not adequately examined. Moreover, if after careful examination, a claim is falsified by the evidence, it should be rejected.

De acordo com Clouser, o único aspecto compartilhado por todas as religiões é que reconhecem algo como divino – e usam essa palavra para significar a realidade eterna e autoexistente que é a origem de todo o restante. Obviamente, elas não concordam sobre o que se caracteriza como divino; concordam apenas que algo é divino. Nenhum outro fator é verdadeiramente universal entre as religiões.

It is the height of illogic to think that humans originated from anything with lower functionality than themselves—from a something instead of a Someone.

We must reject the presumption that holding Christian beliefs disqualifies us as "biased," while the philosophical naturalists get a free pass by presenting their position as "unbiased" and "rational." Most of all, we need to liberate Christianity from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience, and learn how to restore it to the status of objective truth.

Either we "keep faith with Darwin" and embrace postmodernism, or we keep faith with a personal God who is not silent—whose Logos is the source of unified, universal, capital-T Truth.

According to Romans 1, those who reject the Creator will create an idol.

God cannot be rejected without putting something else in his place.

Christianity was permitted to tell Sunday school stories as object lessons to inspire morality, but it was not allowed to claim that those stories were true.

The biblical worldview fulfills both the requirements of human reason and the yearnings of the human spirit.

In every age, the gospel fulfills people's most profound aspirations.

John Calvin defines idolatry as worshipping "the gifts in place of the giver himself.

a Christian worldview is not reductionistic. It does not reduce reason to something less than reason, and therefore it does not self-destruct. A Christian epistemology (theory of knowledge) starts with the transcendent Creator, who spoke the entire universe into being with his Word: "And God said" (Gen. 1:3). "In the beginning was the Word" (John 1:1).

Christianity liberates us from any life-denying reductionism that dishonors and debases humanity. It affirms the high dignity of humans as full persons made in the image of a personal God.

a mind capable of forming an argument against God's existence constitutes evidence for his existence.

Even if a group of children were put "on an island and they raised themselves," Barrett adds, "I think they would believe in God." 13 It appears that we have to be educated out of the knowledge of God by secular schools and media.

Not believing in God is a far more arduous affair than is generally imagined," Eagleton concludes.

All human endeavors depend on God's common grace.

children tend to hold a concept of God even if their parents are atheists.