Cornelius Van Til Quotes

#1. I hold that belief in God is not merely as reasonable as other belief, or even a little or infinitely more probably true than other belief; I hold rather that unless you believe in God you can logically believe in nothing else

Cornelius Van Til

#2. When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

Cornelius Van Til

#3. drive to win and the desire to make a profit are given by God to provide the incentive required for conquering exceptional challenges.

Ed Silvoso

#4. Anti-theism presupposes Theism

Cornelius Van Til

#5. Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality.

Cornelius Van Til

#6. To me, the producing falls into the same as acting. It requires so much time out of your life, and I take it very personally, I realize, so if I do something, it just has to be something I love and I don't want anyone else to do.

Sandra Bullock

#7. He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness.

Cornelius Van Til

#8. I'm going to be frank, Max ... "
"Of course. All cards on the table." But he gave me a poker smile.

Alfred Alcorn

#9. She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

Clive Barker

#10. The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

Cornelius Van Til

#11. Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

Cornelius Van Til

#12. David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.

David Halberstam

#13. To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another.

Cornelius Van Til

#14. Every fact in this world, the God of the Bible claims, has His stamp indelibly engraved upon it.

Cornelius Van Til

#15. The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.

Cornelius Van Til

#16. It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

Raymond Loewy

#17. You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.

Cornelius Van Til

#18. The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks.
Moreover, it speaks of everything.

Cornelius Van Til

#19. It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

Cornelius Van Til

#20. If the God of Christianity exists, the evidence for His existence is abundant and plain so that it is both unscientific and sinful not to believe in Him.

Cornelius Van Til