Apologist Quotes

#1. The role of the Christian apologist is not to re-invent Christianity; it would cease to be Christianity if I did!

Joe Boot

#2. The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

Criss Jami

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Nabeel Qureshi

#4. I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

John Gimlette

#5. Size is important, no matter what our apologist sisters say.

Tom Robbins

#6. I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

Anthony Scaramucci

#7. When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence and that he places greater credence in his independent reasoning than in God's Word.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#8. Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.

Frank Rich

#9. God is his own best apologist.

Os Guinness

#10. I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.

Danielle Arbid

#11. The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion.

Donald M. MacKinnon

#12. Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source ... To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.

Ward Churchill

#13. Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

C.S. Lewis

#14. It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

Criss Jami

#15. Each layman must be his own apologist, responsible for his stewardship of the Gospel in his daily life and work.

William Stringfellow

#16. The biggest challenge was to make sure that we are looking at things honestly and truthfully. We weren't making an apologist film. That was the toughest part.

Cate Shortland

#17. When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

Karl Hess

#18. What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.

Lionel Blue

#19. Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

Karl Hess

#20. His true intention becomes clear by the choice of people he interviewed: every one of them a conservative apologist!

Robert M. Price

#21. Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#22. Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

Deepak Chopra

#23. It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence.

Criss Jami

#24. The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

Richard Platt

#25. In the last essay he wrote before he died, great Christian apologist C. S. Lewis said, "We have no right to happiness; only an obligation to do our duty." Of course it is in our duty that happiness comes. Try it.

Billy Graham

#26. Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes.

Timothy Noah

#27. Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

Bono

#28. When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.

Anna Quindlen

#29. Many of these slaveholding populists were celebrated by posterity as tribunes of the common people. Meanwhile, the self-made Hamilton, a fervent abolitionist and a staunch believer in meritocracy, was villainized in American history textbooks as an apologist of privilege and wealth.

Ron Chernow

#30. Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

Gertrude Atherton

#31. I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

Jose Mujica

#32. The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.

P. J. O'Rourke

#33. You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

Rachel Held Evans