OUR SAVIOR HAS SET US FREE

Let no one grieve at his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the Death of our Savior has set us free. He has destroyed it by enduring it.

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NOT THE END OF THE STORY

Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.

William Lane Craig, from Five Views on Apologetics (Zondervan, 2000), p. 288.

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OUTSTANDINGLY DIFFERENT

 

The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It’s outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

Antony Flew  Quoted in My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism (2004)

SEE SOMETHING THROUGH IT

You cannot go on ‘explaining away’ forever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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IF GOD DOES NOT EXIST…

 

If God does not exist, everything is permissible.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

SOMETHING IN THE DEPTHS OF OUR SOULS

 

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator… There is something in the depths of our souls which tells us that the world may be more than a mere combination of events.

Dr. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

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WHY IS THERE ANYTHING AT ALL?

 

The existence of our universe might be explained by scientific cosmology, but such an explanation would still have to refer to features of some larger reality that contained or gave rise to it. A scientific explanation of the Big Bang would not be an explanation of why there was something rather than nothing, because [...]

A DIVINE MIRACLE OCCURRED

These three great facts – the resurrection appearances, the empty tomb, and the origin of the Christian faith – all point unavoidably to one conclusion: The resurrection of Jesus. Today the rational man can hardly be blamed if he believes that on that first Easter morning a divine miracle occurred.

William Lane Craig, quoted [...]

TURNS INTO GLORY

The filth that our poor, muddled, sincere, resentful enemies fling at the Holy One either does not stick, or sticking, turns into glory.

C.S. Lewis, from God in the Dock (1970)

BY IT I SEE EVERYTHING ELSE

 

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C.S. Lewis, from The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (2001)