Quotes by Eric Metaxas

“The author of the hymn 'Amazing Grace', John Newton, who once was a slave ship captain, and who became a Christian preacher and an enemy of the slave trade, once said: 'I have reason to praise [God...”

“This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.”

“Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)”

“the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.”

“Another version of the Prosperity Gospel or Name It and Claim It teaching has to do with finding a verse in the Bible and then claiming that verse. Proponents of this thinking believe that God must...”

“Praying to God involves both us and God. God wants us to participate in what he is doing, and for sure one of the main ways we participate in what he is doing is by prayer. We can also participate ...”

“Even though prayers are not offered only to get a desired result, there is little doubt that most miracles are the result of prayer. God wants us to pray to him and ask him for things, just as any ...”

“If we are talking about a loving God, we are talking about a God who asks us to trust him, whether we get what we ask for or dont. But he will never force us to trust him. That is entirely up to us...”

“It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.”

“With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.”

“Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.”

“He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfl...”

“Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich ...”

“Atheism tells him what he isnt, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.”

“Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And thats because it is the most threatening to those in power.”

“Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.”

“Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil. "Reasonable people," he said, think that "with a little reason, they can pull back together a structure that has come ...”

“(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent...”

“let anyone using those weasel words freedom of worship know, they have freedom of worship in China and it is meaningless and it is vile. Freedom of worship says you may do what you like in that bui...”

“There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.”