“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

“Our number one problem is a faulty concept of God.”

“As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.”

“Buddha never claimed to be God. Moses never claimed to be Jehovah. Mohammed never claimed to be Allah. Yet Jesus Christ claimed to be the true and living God. Buddha simply said, “I am a teacher in search of the truth.” Jesus said, “I am the Truth.” Confucius said, “I never claimed to be holy.” Jesus said, “Who convicts me of sin?” Mohammed said, “Unless God throws his cloak of mercy over me, I have no hope.” Jesus said, “Unless you believe in me, you will die in your sins.”

“Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost, is almost entirely neglected.”

“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?…  Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if i did that, then my argument against God collapsed too–for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist – in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless – I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality – namely my idea of justice – was full of sense. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning:  just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

“God exists whether or not men may choose to believe in Him.  The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God.”

“Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the thought of identifying themselves with Jesus Christ and admitting they are sinners.”

“Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when pressed, the atheist will often attempt to hide his lack of conviction in his own beliefs behind some poorly formulated utilitarianism, or argue that he acts out of altruistic self-interest. But this is only post-facto rationalization, not reason or rational behavior.”

“The atheist can appeal to nothing absolute, nothing objectively true for all people, it is just mere opinion enforced by might. The Christian appeals to a standard outside himself/herself in which truth and qualitative values can be made sense of.”

“The most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.”

“According to PhD astrophysicists and qualified American science professors, the odds of the more than 2,500 prophecies found in the Bible being fulfilled by chance are 1 with 2,000 zeros after it. According to the mathematical science of probability, if a number has more than 50 zeros after it, the odds of that happening by chance are virtually impossible. This is irrefutable proof that the Bible is inspired by God!”

“Absent an absolute moral authority independent of fallible humans, the only meaning “wrong” could have (pertaining to conduct) would be “in opposition to X,” or “falling short of X’s standards,” which are only persuasive to those who have already accepted X.”

“I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.”

“The best defense that anyone can have against the wiles of the devil is a humble heart”: “Nothing sets a person so much out of Satan’s reach as humility.” Humility is a great protection against falling headlong into Satan’s trap. Besides, it is hard to fall down when you are already prostrate before God.”

“Grace is the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude. 1) Good will, loving-kindness, favor; used of the merciful kindness by which God, exerting His holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of Christian virtue. 2) The spiritual condition of one governed  by the power of divine grace.”

“I was at this time of living, like so many Atheists or Anti-theists, in a whirl of contradictions.  I maintained that God did not exist.  I was also very angry with God for not existing.  I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.”

“Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”

“If anything now exists, either something is eternal, or no one, plus nothing equals, everything.”

“We must recognize that this country is close to being lost. Not first of all because of a humanist conspiracy, but because the Bible believing Christians in the last 40 years who have said that they know that the final reality is this infinite personal God, who is the Creator, they said they have known it, and they have done nothing about it. As the consensus has changed, there has been a vast silence.”

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven…but we have forgotten God……and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own”. “Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become… too proud to pray to the God that made us. The only assurance of our national safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men”

 

“The chief danger of the Twentieth Century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God . . .  and heaven without hell.”

“Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don’t wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.”

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”

One noted biologist said, “The odds of life originating by accident are the same odds as an unabridged dictionary resulting from an  explosion in a printing shop.” Another said, “For life as we know it, to originate by chance would be the same odds as a monkey producing an encyclopedia by randomly pushing the keys on a typewriter!”

“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”

“No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that ‘In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth’.”

“Karl Marx said man is not responsible for his own behavior because his behavior is economically pre-determined. Sigmund Freud said man is not responsible for his own behavior because his behavior is pre-natally pre-determined. Charles Darwin said man is not responsible for his own behavior because his behavior is genetically pre-determined. John Dewey said man is not responsible for his actions, because they are educationally pre-determined. Jean Dixon said man is not responsible for the way he is because it’s astrologically pre-determined. Sociologists say it’s not your fault, it’s your environment. God says men are without excuse.”.

“The rest of the scriptures are but a commentary on the Ten Commandments, either exciting us to obedience by arguments, alluring us by promises, or restraining us from transgressions by threatenings. Rightly understood, the precepts of the New Testament are but explications, amplifications and applications of the Ten Commandments.”

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you”

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

“Everything in Christianity is connected more or less directly with the great facts of Sin and Redemption; and the plan of Redemption. The essence of Christianity cannot be rightly understood until the doctrine of Sin be adequately recognized and established.”

“It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”

“The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.”

“A church which does not exist to do good in the slums of a city is a church that has no reason to justify its longer existence-Not for yourself church do you exist any more than Christ existed for Himself His glory was that He laid aside His glory, and the glory of the church is when she lays down her respectability and her dignity and counts it to be her glory to gather together the out casts, and her highest honor to seek amid the foulest mire the priceless jewels for which Jesus shed His blood.”

“Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.”

An utterly fascinating illustration of this duping of ourselves is the latest arts building opened at Ohio State University, the Wexner Center for the Performing Arts, another one of our chimerical exploits in the name of intellectual advance.  Newsweek branded this building “America’s first deconstructionist building.”  It’s white scaffolding, red brick turrets, and Colorado grass pods evoke a double take.  But puzzlement only intensifies when you enter the building, for inside you encounter stairways that go nowhere, pillars that hang from the ceiling without purpose, and angled surfaces configured to create a sense of vertigo.  The architect, we are duly informed, designed this building to reflect life itself-senseless and incoherent-and the “capriciousness of the rules that organize the built world.”  When the rationale was explained to me, I had just one question: Did he do the same with the foundation?

The laughter in  response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse.  And that is precisely the double standard of atheism!  It is possible to dress up and romanticize our bizarre experiments in social restructuring while disavowing truth or absolutes. But one dares not play such deadly games with the foundations of good thinking.

“God gave you two ears and one mouth so you could listen twice as much as you talk. He could have given you two mouths one on each side of your head and one ear right in the middle of your forehead so you could talk to two people at the same time. Notice also the distinct difference between the mouth and the ear. The ears are always open, always ready to receive instruction. But for the mouth, God provided three lines of defense to keep it shut. The tongue is completely surrounded with a double row of sharp teeth, above and beneath. It also has two powerful jaws, and two lips, capable of being tightly compressed in order to keep that little two ounce piece of flesh from causing any more trouble.”

 

“At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”

“…the real discoveries of science — as opposed to the materialist philosophy that has been imposed upon science – point straight towards the reality of intelligent causes in biology. When you realize that fact, then you are ready to recognize that there are two definitions of “science” in our culture. One definition says that scientists follow the evidence regardless of the philosophy; the other says that scientists must follow the (materialist) philosophy regardless of the evidence.”

“The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words ‘true’ or ‘false’.”

“I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use.”

“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible”

“What will matter when this life is over? Wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It will not matter where you came from, what your skin color or gender. It will not matter what you bought but what you built. Not how much you made but how much you gave. Not how much you learned but how much you taught. It’s not competence but character that will count. What will matter is what you did with what you had. Every act of integrity, compassion, courage, or sacrifice that enriched, empowered, or encouraged others to emulate the example of Jesus Christ, that is what will be rewarded throughout eternity.”

“There is only one great Book among all the religions of the world that makes any attempt to predict the future in all its ramifications. That Book is the Bible, which not only contains thousands of words of prophecy, but also stands alone as the only book divinely inspired. It is indeed a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our pathway.”

“The whole treasury of God will be made over by deed of gift to the soul that is humble enough to be able to receive it without growing proud because of it. God blesses us all up to the full measure of what is safe for Him to do. If you do not get a blessing, it is because it is not safe for you to have one.”