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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ea4127c | Even if it were decided in extreme cases that abortion is an ethical option, the extreme cases should not dictate the general law. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 01bf9f8 | Satan's chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God. | christianity satan temptation | R.C. Sproul | |
| 7256567 | God requires perfection to get into his heaven. We either find that perfection in ourselves or we find it somewhere else, in someone else. If we think we can find it in ourselves, we delude ourselves and the truth is not in us (see 1 John 1:8). | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a4b0303 | Do you not know that God dwells in light inaccessible? We weak and ignorant creatures want to probe and understand the incomprehensible majesty of the unfathomable light of the wonder of God. We approach; we prepare ourselves to approach. What wonder then that his majesty overpowers us and shatters!"13" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8034145 | If I hope in anything or anyone less than One who has power over suffering and, ultimately, death, I am doomed to final disappointment. Suffering will drive me to hopelessness. What character I have will disintegrate. It is the hope of Christ that makes it possible for us to persevere in times of tribulation and distress. We have an anchor for our souls that rests in the One who has gone before us and conquered. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1d01ee3 | Do you not know that God dwells in light inaccessible? We weak and ignorant creatures want to probe and understand the incomprehensible majesty of the unfathomable light of the wonder of God. We approach; we prepare ourselves to approach. What wonder then that his majesty overpowers us and shatters!"'-" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| fd89494 | To be spiritually dead is to be worldly. It is to buy into and follow slavishly the values and customs of the secular culture. Not only do the spiritually dead follow the course of this world, they follow "the prince of the power of the air" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c397949 | Paul's favorite description of himself was doulos, which means "slave"-one purchased for service. He said the same status applies to all believers, for we all have been "bought at a price" (1 Cor. 6:20). We belong to the one who has paid for us in order to redeem us, and now we are called to serve Him." -- | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b856903 | Seek the kingdom. Seek righteousness. These are the priorities of the Christian life. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b75ea38 | If Paul does not mean that all who are called are justified, the only alternative would be that some who are called are justified. If we supply the word some instead of the word all here, then we must supply it throughout the Golden Chain. Then it would read like this: Some of those he foreknew, he also predestined. Some of those he predestined, he also called. Some of those he called, these he also justified. Some of those he justified, he.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 98ecdff | Only the justified person can be comfortable in the presence of a holy God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 28d3cc1 | if God is not sovereign, God is not God. If there is even one maverick molecule in the universe--one molecule running loose outside the scope of God's sovereign ordination--we cannot have the slightest confidence that any promise God has ever made about the future will come to pass. This, | R.C. Sproul | ||
| d0941e6 | other | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 78d82bc | One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs." --PHILLIP E. JOHNSON" | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 12a3a0d | Any denial of truth presupposes truth, so the existence of truth is inescapable. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| b959c13 | any specific teaching that contradicts a teaching of the Bible is false. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 0b32498 | difference between sociology and morality. Sociology is descriptive; morality is prescriptive. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| b1ef296 | Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 28a0ebb | there aren't missing links--there's a missing chain! | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| ca941db | J. dBudziszewski points out, "The motto 'Reason Alone!' is nonsense anyway. Reason itself presupposes faith. Why? Because a defense of reason by reason is circular, therefore worthless. Our only guarantee that human reason works is God who made it." | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| b6af819 | Christians are not supposed to "just have faith." Christians are commanded to know what they believe and why they believe it. They are commanded to give answers to those who ask (1 Pet. 3:15), and to demolish arguments against the Christian faith (2 Cor. 10:4-5)." | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| de04f83 | God overrules the evil intent of humans to accomplish His ultimate good. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| e74f40c | The Saudis may be teaching that Jews are pigs, but in our country, by means of a one-sided biology curriculum, we teach kids that there's really no difference between any human being and a pig. After all, if we're merely the product of blind naturalistic forces--if no deity created us with any special significance--then we are nothing more than pigs with big brains. Does this religious (atheistic) "truth" matter? It does when kids carry out.. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 2c8f295 | Einstein said that he wanted "to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thought, the rest are details."3" | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 01d893b | Christianity is one of the few worldviews that can justify absolute human rights because it affirms that those rights are given to us by God. As our founders recognized, governments aren't meant to give or take away rights: governments are meant to secure rights that the people already possess. That's what we affirmed in our Declaration of Independence. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 720e281 | skeptics are caught in a dilemma. If they say history cannot be known, then they lose the ability to say evolution is true and Christianity is false. If they admit history can be known, then they must deal with the multiple lines of historical evidence for creation and Christianity. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 8b909d2 | Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3 | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 3057c6d | I confess to your Charity that I have learned to yield this respect and honour only to the canonical books of Scripture: of these alone do I most firmly believe that the authors were completely free from error. And if in these writings I am perplexed by anything which appears to me opposed to truth, I do not hesitate to suppose that either the manuscript is faulty, or the translator has not caught the meaning of what was said, or I myself h.. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 9c58609 | In the Gospels--Jesus is the prophet to his people. In Acts and the Epistles--Jesus is the priest for his people. In the book of Revelation--Jesus is the King over his people. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| a2e2fe3 | When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus "What is truth?" nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn't wait for Jesus to respond." | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 5f98a03 | if there is no God, everything is lawful, | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 56d2ec1 | If God is love and humans are free, then there must be a hell. Not only would it be a contradiction for God to force people to love him, but it would also be hell for them to be forced to love the One they hate. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 10dced1 | C. S. Lewis observed, if Christ is not God, then he could not have been an exemplary prophet or a great moral teacher, because he claimed to be God. If he was not who he said he was, then he was either a liar or a lunatic, hardly a great moral teacher or prophet. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| f51762a | Andy Stanley put it well: "My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school science teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead." | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 2c33650 | If for no other reason, God sometimes allows us to suffer pain so that we can comfort others suffering in a like situation. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| b152c40 | If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can? | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| c20e0eb | William Dembski points out, "If a creature looks like a dog, smells like a dog, barks like a dog, feels like a dog, and pants like a dog, the burden of evidence lies with the person insisting the creature isn't a dog." | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| ca69114 | There are some things even God cannot do. He cannot force anyone to freely accept Him. Forced freedom is a contradiction in terms. This is why Jesus said, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. (Matthew 23:37) So the only way God could literally destroy all evil is to destroy .. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 418871f | To say that evil is a privation is not the same as saying that it is a mere absence or negation of good. The power of sight is found neither in a blind man nor in a rock. But it is a privation for the blind man, whereas it is a mere absence in the rock. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 42af012 | Bad things will happen to good people, but a good God has for us a good end, for these bad things will bring about good results: "Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all" (2 Corinthians 4:17)." | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| a9709ae | Romans contains some seventy-four references to the Old Testament (mostly from Psalms and Isaiah). "It is written" occurs nineteen times in this book, more than half of all the times Paul uses the phrase." | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| 4536d45 | A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure. | evangelism sovereignty-of-god vulnerability | Norman L. Geisler | |
| 3c55580 | There's a difference between proving a proposition and accepting a proposition. We might be able to prove Christianity is true beyond reasonable doubt, but only you can choose to accept it. Please consider this question to see if you are open to acceptance: If someone could provide reasonable answers to the most significant questions and objections you have about Christianity--reasonable to the point that Christianity seems true beyond a re.. | Norman L. Geisler | ||
| ebc8728 | On the other hand, if there is no God, then your life ultimately means nothing. Since there is no enduring purpose to life, there's no right or wrong way to live it. And it doesn't matter how you live or what you believe--your destiny is dust. | Norman L. Geisler |