Top 89 Lee Strobel Quotes
#2. If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.
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#3. Doubts can produce positive side-effects - if you work toward resolving them.
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#4. I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer.
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#5. But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time - in our own lives. In other words, when we're judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.
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#6. Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
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#7. All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.
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#8. I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that's a bigger miracle than the resurrection.
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#9. Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it's testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don't.
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#10. A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.
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#11. All we needed when we first came to Jesus was his grace, and grace is all we need to grow in Christ. Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.
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#12. we can't be filled with the power of God until we let go of the false pretense that we can get by on our own.
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#13. it's at least possible that God is wise enough to foresee that we need some pain for reasons which we may not understand but which he foresees as being necessary to some eventual good. Therefore, he's not being evil by allowing that pain to exist.
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#14. Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.
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#15. Craig summarized his next point succinctly at the outset: "A third factor pointing toward God is the existence of objective moral values in the universe. If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist.
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#16. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom.
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#17. There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.
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#18. The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!
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#19. That is the joyful task of every follower of Jesus. Someday may it be written about me on my tombstone: He was so amazed by God's grace that he couldn't keep it to himself.
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#20. When the Bible says God loves the world, it doesn't footnote any exceptions. God's grace is inexhaustible.
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#21. I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.
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#22. Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
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#23. The idea that Jesus never really died on the cross can be found in the Koran, which was written in the seventh century--in fact, Ahmadiyya Muslims contend that Jesus actually fled to India. To this day there's a shrine that supposedly marks his real burial place in Srinagar, Kashmir.
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#24. Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide.
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#25. My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.
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#26. Wishful thinking doesn't change reality.
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#27. If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.
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#28. He's firmly, irrevocably, unambiguously convinced that you're somebody worth dying for.
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#29. Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.
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#30. Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.
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#31. Biblical hope is the confident expectation that God is willing and able to fulfill the promises he has made to those who trust in him.
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#32. If I had stopped asking questions, that's where I would have remained.
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#33. Mother Teresa used the analogy of electricity: "The wire is you and me; the current is God," she said. "We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, and produce the light of the world - Jesus.
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#34. while grace sets apart Christianity, so does truth. Jesus was filled with grace and truth, and in Christianity you can know the truth, not just through some sort of spiritual experience, but also through careful investigation.
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#35. Any good scientist will tell you there is one important rule: follow the evidence wherever it leads you...Good science is objective - that means it looks only at the evidence, even if the evidence points to something we don't want to believe.
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#36. The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.
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#37. I certainly believe that God did create the world, yeah, absolutely I believe that.
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#38. There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.
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#39. Through doubt we can learn more than through naive trust,
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#40. You can invoke neither time nor space nor matter not energy nor the laws of nature to explain the origin of the universe. General relativity points to the need for a cause that transcends those domains. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~
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#41. Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.
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#42. I'm all for lifestyle evangelism, but I'm also in favor of intentionality, where we seek out opportunities for spiritual conversations and are equipped to explain the gospel and why we believe it.
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#43. [Hope is] the unswerving belief that better days are ahead, probably in this world and most certainly in the next.
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#44. I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies.
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#45. It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.
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#46. It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.
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#47. God didn't let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity's supreme happiness. Job's suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.
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#48. the scientific data point powerfully toward the existence of a Creator and that the historical evidence for the resurrection establishes convincingly that Jesus is divine.
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#49. The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.
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#50. I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.
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#51. Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause.
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#52. Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it. Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.
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#53. Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing.
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#54. Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.
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#55. Nobody is beyond the reach of the Gospel.
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#56. Hell was not part of the original creation. Hell is God's fall-back position. Hell is something God was forced to make because people chose to rebel against him and turn against what was best for them and the purpose for which they were created.
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#57. If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.
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#58. We can never sink so far that God's grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.
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#59. These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.
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#60. just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.
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#61. on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
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#62. The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and his inspired teaching. It's the proof of his triumph over sin and death. It's the foreshadowing of the resurrection of his followers. It's the basis of Christian hope. It's the miracle of all miracles.
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#63. Real love - our love of God and our love of each other - must involve a choice. But with the granting of that choice comes the possibility that people would choose instead to hate.
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#64. When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.
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#65. Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.
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#66. No cardinal or essential doctrine is altered by any textual variant that has plausibility of going back to the original. The evidence for that has not changed to this day.
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#67. I've seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.
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#68. God is the God of do-overs, and that should give us great hope. We really can be absolved of our past.
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#69. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity. Scripture tells us that even Jesus 'learned obedience through suffering14 - and if that was true for him, why wouldn't it be even more true for us?
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#70. If every birth is a rebirth, and if every life pays for the previous life, then what were you paying for in your first birth? You
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#71. believe in Jesus on the basis of the historical evidence, but my relationship with Jesus goes way beyond the evidence. I have to put my trust in him and walk with him on a daily basis.
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#72. if the gospels had been identical to each other, word for word, this would have raised charges that the authors had conspired among themselves to coordinate their stories in advance, and that would have cast doubt on them.
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#73. Human beings can build airplanes, but they can't build a human being like you.
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#74. Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ.
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#75. Satan greets people in hell by saying: "You'll find that there's no right or wrong here - just what works for you.
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#76. Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.
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#77. In a world where spiritual confusion is increasing, GodQuest helps bring clarity and conviction. This is a terrific resource for developing a solid foundation for faith.
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#78. Paul himself says that he was converted to a follower of Jesus because he had personally encountered the resurrected Jesus.12 So we have Jesus' resurrection attested by friend and foe alike, which is very significant.
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#79. reporting of matters that were far more important, not only to him but to others as well?"2 Matters, for example, such as the resurrection of Jesus, which Luke says was firmly established by "many convincing proofs" (Acts 1:3). Are you as intrigued as I was by what
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#80. Even to someone as notorious as Madonna, I think Jesus would say, 'I'll help you experience the fulfillment that has eluded you despite your struggle to find it. I'll help heal whatever's driving you to affirm your self-worth in self-defeating ways. But I can only help you if you let me.
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#81. If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.
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#82. I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.
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#83. It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.
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#84. Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.
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#85. Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.
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#86. Learning about the intellectual basis for Christianity bolsters the faith of Christians-espe cially those who may be experiencing doubts-and prepares them to share Christ with others.
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#87. Anchoring our hope to Christ means we live with a confident expectation that he will therefore fulfill his promises to us.
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#88. How we face death tells us a lot about how we'll face life.
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#89. Only by facing my sin could God use it to change me for the better. The Bible warns that God's discipline isn't pleasant, but in the end the changes God produces in our character are worth it.
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