If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?
Atheists seem to exercise their reductionistic tendencies selectively. If religion stands in the way of saving people, these people have infinite worth. But if the scientist stands in the way of preserving human life, the embryo is “nothing more than a dot.
Apologetics is not just giving answers to questions – it is questioning people’s answers, and even questioning their questions. When you question someone’s question, you compel him or her to open up about his or her own assumptions. Our assumptions must be examined.
I don’t think older Christians can ever fully know what an important role they play in the affirmation of younger believers. When you’re just a youth, it means so much to have someone who’s farther along the road say to you, “I see something in you, and I want you to be encouraged in it.
Our lives are shaped by others literally from birth, and even the best of intentions can result in the most unexpected of hurts.
Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.
It is a self-evident truth that a person who truly prays and seeks God’s wisdom in life recognizes the sovereignty of God and is committed to seeking God’s wisdom in life’s important choices.
I believe God intervenes in the lives of every one of us. He speaks to us in different ways and at different times so that we may know he is the author of our very personality.
I am well aware that objects are nearer than they appear and should be handled with care. These.
Just as strength is a man’s charm, so charm is a woman’s strength.
We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28.
It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God.
The reality is that if religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth, regardless of the mood of the day.
Though I used to complain about the indecency of the idea of God’s wrath, I came to think that I would have to rebel against a God who wasn’t wrathful at the sight of the world’s evil. God isn’t wrathful in spite of being love. God is wrathful because God is love.13.
Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one’s conscience.
You see, when the skeptic asks why God did not fashion us so that we would only choose good, he or she completely misses – drastically misses – what goodness is in God’s eyes. Goodness is not an effect.
My experience at Trinity points up one big difference between Islam and Christianity: Islam shuns a critique of the Quran. If you ask the hard questions of the Quran, you risk being branded, and, in some cases, you even risk your life. The Christian, however, has always been willing to subject the Bible to the severest analysis and is able to come out, knowing that it can survive the blade of the skeptic.
What the person means by saying, “You must be open to everything” is really, “You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too.” Indian.
Without the undergirding of love, the possessor of any conviction becomes obnoxious, and the dogma believed becomes repulsive to the one who disagrees with it.
Anytime evil becomes organized, its ferocity breathes the air of hell. There is nothing that can quench that fury. It cannot be stopped until it has accomplished its purpose. That is why hell is unending. Its nature is to burn on the inside, and no outward consolation or influence can change wickedness that is inflamed by numbers. The.