Top 69 Josh McDowell Quotes
#1. Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?
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#2. My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.
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#3. The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.
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#4. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.
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#6. The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
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#7. Christianity is not a religion. Religion is humans trying to work their way to God through good works. Christianity is God coming to men and women through Jesus Christ.
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#8. Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.
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#9. We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.
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#10. On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
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#11. Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation.
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#12. While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.
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#13. Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.
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#14. Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.
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#15. Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
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#16. I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.
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#17. Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
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#18. I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us.
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#19. The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted.
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#21. If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.
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#22. We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.
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#23. I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.
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#24. Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.
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#25. Whenever you do judge, the only basis of judgment is not your own perspective or anything else, it's the very character and nature of God and that's why we are to allow Him to exercise His justice, where I personally want to take it upon myself.
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#26. Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original.
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#27. You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions ... no matter what the question is ... without being judgmental.
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#28. My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord.
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#29. Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.
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#31. After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history
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#32. As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
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#33. One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.
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#34. I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
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#35. My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.
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#36. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have,
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#37. If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't.
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#38. The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
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#39. Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'
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#40. After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
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#41. Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.
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#42. Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
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#43. No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
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#44. Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
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#45. Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort have created a biblically sound course that will not only motivate Christians; it will equip them to fulfill the Great Commission.
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#46. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person ...
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#47. Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
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#48. Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.
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#49. This is the age of the new tolerance and it is producing a bumper crop of anti-Christian and anti-American sentiment.
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#50. Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
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#51. The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have ... whether you like it or not.
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#52. When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.
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#53. It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.
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#54. You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions, because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.
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#55. Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.
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#56. Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.
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#57. Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.
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#58. Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.
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#59. If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.
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#60. Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
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#61. Christ can be trusted to keep His Word that He will exchange our drab existence for joyous living, abundant life! And while true love, total acceptance, and complete security are rare in our frantic world, the biblical evidence that our desires in these areas will be fulfilled in Christ is abundant.
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#62. When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church ... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Don't go it alone - you won't make it.
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#63. Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
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#64. For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
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#65. Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
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#66. We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
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#67. If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.
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#68. Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.
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#69. If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
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