Eric Metaxas Quotes

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that’s because it is the most threatening to those in power.

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.