“It is true, that a little philosophy inclinineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.”
— Sir Francis Bacon
Category Archives: Quotes
Tim Keller on Apologetics
I’ve heard plenty of Christians try to answer the why question by going back to the what. ‘You have to believe because Jesus is the Son of God.’ But that’s answering the why with more what. Increasingly we live in a time in which you can’t avoid the why question. Just giving the what (for example, a vivid gospel presentation) worked in the days when the cultural institutions created an environment in which Christianity just felt true or at least honorable. But in a post-Christendom society, in the marketplace of ideas, you have to explain why this is true, or people will just dismiss it.
— Tim Keller
The Mystery of God
Any theism that didn’t ultimately point to mystery would not be a very believable world view. So we must not regret our final use of mystery. It is not an unfortunate, desperation ploy but a necessary part of any exalted theism.
— Tom Morris
Miracles in Quotes
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
— Peggy Noonan
Miracles in Quotes
How quickly we forget God’s great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
— David Wilkerson
Miracles in Quotes
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
— Henry Miller
Miracles in Quotes
And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.
— Elias Hicks
The Duty to Understand Why You Believe
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought. But if God in whom they believe created them with intellectual and rational powers, that imposes upon them the duty to try to understand the creed of their religion. Not to do so is to verge on superstition.
— Mortimer Adler
The REAL Christian Delusion
[Christians] need to wake up from the illusion that the America we now live in – not the America of our nostalgia or imagination or best ideals, but the real America we live in here and now – is somehow friendly to our faith. What we’re watching emerge in this country is a new kind of paganism, an atheism with air-conditioning and digital TV. And it is neither tolerant nor morally neutral.
— Archbishop Charles Chaput
On Science and Being Called Ignorant
For the record, I love science and I excelled in it at school. I took some of the advanced classes — microbiology and anatomy & phisiology. I couldn’t get into the marine biology or genetics optional courses that only the top 1% of science whizzes get into, unfortunately. In other words, I’m not ignorant of science so please stop saying I am.
— Cory Tucholski
Josiah Concept Ministries 