Words matter. These are the best Eric Metaxas Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That’s Christianity to me.
Work allows us to take care of God’s creation and bring glory to Him as His stewards.
I guess I’m concerned that vulgarity has now officially entered the mainstream of our culture, and I think people have to respectfully stand up and say, ‘No thanks.’
Even if you aren’t a believer, there are incredible stories in the ‘good book’ that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is – and by the way, Shakespeare’s plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references.
The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something – or Someone – beyond itself.
We’ve always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.
You and I must demonstrate love to our gay neighbors, of course, remembering that we are ultimately engaged in spiritual warfare. But we should boldly stand up when our rights as citizens and the demands of our conscience are threatened.
I’m the author of several books, including children’s books.
Language is powerful. Words matter.
To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.
Home is – or should be – a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table.
No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!
Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.
There was a time when ‘science’ meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it’s rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.
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.
Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond ‘eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.’
The familiar can feel good – especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn’t uplift us, challenge us, or inspire anew as truly original work can.
Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.
Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.
Miracles are supposed to point us to Him, but we can get to God without miracles. It is God himself we should long for rather than for the miracles that point to him. To get caught up in wanting miracles is a bit like thinking the destination of a road trip is the highway you’re supposed to take.
Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him.
Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.
Where did God come from? It’s certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.
Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy.
Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant – from the moment of our creation – to live forever.
Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can’t have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free.
Trump errs on the side of bluster sometimes for effect, but I don’t think that the people who voted for him, most of them, would ever be for not caring for immigrants or refugees. People in the church know it’s our obligation.
No politician has ever used his faith to a greater result for all of humanity, and that is why, in his day, Wilberforce was a moral hero far more than a political one.
For at least a decade, Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, and stuck on social media. While that may not be entirely fair, they are notoriously liberal, overwhelmingly supporting left-leaning candidates and favoring policies like nationalized healthcare and same-sex ‘marriage.’
Sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote for the person who is going to do the least damage or who is maybe going to pull you back from the brink.
The freedoms we have enjoyed in America – and spread around the world – are incredibly fragile freedoms.
America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.
In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children.
People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself!
If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle.
I think that there are deceptive forces out there that will try to lead us away from God, and we really do need to be careful.
Men and women are complements to each other, physically and otherwise.
Donald Trump’s rise is certainly a symptom of our fading virtue and faith, but ironically, he may well be our only hope for finding our way back to bolder expressions of them.
We’re commanded by God to worship God with our mind.
When you have a biblical idea of men’s strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others.
Christians recognize that our planet was uniquely designed and fine-tuned to support life – and that’s putting it mildly. Our place in the universe is nothing less than a miracle.
All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.
As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God’s ability to provide for or protect us.
We all have different strengths, different gifts.
David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant.
Every single cell in each person’s body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human being in history whose cells have some mixture of the two, nor anyone who has ever been able to change that cellular reality.
Often, we have only focused on what we’ve done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don’t focus on where we’ve come from and how we’ve overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.
Being an American is something we need to learn and understand.
I think most people have no idea about what religious freedom means.
It’s a fact that if Hillary Clinton is elected, the country’s chance to have a Supreme Court that values the Constitution – and the genuine liberty and self-government for which millions have died – is gone. Not for four years, or eight, but forever.
