TRIES IN VAIN TO REFUTE THEM

 

We know truth not only through our reason, but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1670)

Hat tip to Apologetics315

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HE CREATES MINDS

 

He (God) creates minds to share in himself, gives them life, so that they may experience him, causes them to desire him, enlarges them to grasp him, justifies them so that they may deserve him.

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153 A.D.)

BOTH WILL BE SUCCESSFUL

 

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who seek God and those who seek to avoid him… and both will be successful.

Ken Boa

MORE THAN…

 

Looking back, it is clear to me that man is more than the sum of his genes.

Caedmon’s Call, Lead of Love (2004)

A HISTORIAN OF FIRST RANK

Luke is a historian of the first rank; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy, he is possessed of the true historic sense … In short this author should be placed along with the very greatest of historians.

Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New [...]

THE BEST EXPLANATION

The Christian worldview is not proven in one or two strokes, but is rather verified by appealing to a wide and compelling variety of converging arguments. Christianity is shown to be the best explanation for the origin and nature of the universe as well as the human condition and the facts of history.

Douglas [...]

SITTING THERE FOR CENTURIES

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have [...]

A BEAUTIFUL THING

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

CREATED FOR MAN TO LIVE IN

We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cossetted, cherished group of creatures; our Darwinian claim to have done it all ourselves is as ridiculous and as charming as a baby’s brave efforts to stand on its own feet and refuse his mother’s hand. If the universe had not been made with the most exacting [...]

THE HALLMARKS OF DESIGN

 

If living things – things that we manifestly did not design ourselves – bear the hallmarks of design, if they exhibit a signature that would lead us to recognize intelligent activity in any other realm of experience, then perhaps it is time to rehabilitate this lost way of knowing and to rekindle our wonder [...]