Greg Bahnsen Quotes

#1. Have faith in yourself, but also have faith in faith. Not faith as others define it. Faith as you define it. Faith as faith defines itself in your heart. In

Phil Knight

#2. The successful possess the courage to walk each day toward something; after coming through everything.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#3. The teaching of Colossians 2:3-8 is unambiguous. ALL knowledge (note: not simply knowledge of "religious" matters is to be found in Christ.

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#4. Paul sets forth the attitude to which the defender of the faith must be committed: Let God be found true, but every man a liar.

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#5. I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.

L. Neil Smith

#6. When someone's paradigm changes, the world itself changes with it. So "facts" are only facts *for a system* or paradigm.

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#7. With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive" statism.

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#8. There is no environment where man can flee to escape the revelational presence of God (Ps. 139:8).

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#9. 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.

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#10. She doesn't understand why I'd want to go by the name of some middle aged van driver when I could go by a pretty name like Freda. I told her I like to be economical with syllables.

L. H. Cosway

#11. In the nature of the case, the best witness to God's existence, the truth of His revelation, and the basis of a genuinely sound defense of the Christian faith would be God Himself.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#12. Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

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#13. We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.

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#14. Christianity is reasonable in virtue of the impossibility of the contrary.

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#15. Since the fall of man was ethical in character (not metaphysical) the unregenerate and regenerate share the facts of the world and the rules of thought, but their interpretation and use of them are far from neutral.

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#16. Jesus evidently thought that human beings still retained a residue of their former glory.

John R.W. Stott

#17. I keep writing children's books, I keep making children's books, because I still have them inside of me.

Oliver Jeffers

#18. Without faith, there is no proper understanding by which a man can judge. As Augustine well said, 'I believe in order to understand'.

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#19. We are made of all those who have built and broken us.

Atticus Poetry

#20. I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!

John Wesley

#21. I'm not the protagonist of a novel or anything...
I'm just a normal college student who likes to read...
But...
If I were to write a book with me as tge main character...
It would be...
...A tragedy.

Sui Ishida

#22. If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes
there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

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#23. The Word of God is a seamless garment, and men who deny its law deny its eschatology also, and are deprived of God's power. It is not surprising, therefore, that this is an era of impotence for the church.

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#24. There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

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#25. God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.

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#26. A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.

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#27. Women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men.

Edith Wharton

#28. It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

A. C. Benson

#29. I want a formal apology from the mayor.

Antonio Gonzalez

#30. To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

Greg L. Bahnsen