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“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men; The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” -C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, page 55
“You stir man to take pleasure in praising you, because you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” -St. Augustine, Confessions
“You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.” -St. Augustine, Confessions
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? ...If you gain, you gain all; If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”-Blaise Pascal
“Man’s attempt to reach God is religion. God’s attempt to reach man is Jesus.”
“There are two ways to live life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” -Albert Einstein
In an interview with Albert Einstein in Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929, we find the following dialogue:
Interviewer: “To what extent are you influenced by Christianity?”
Einstein: “As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figue of the Nazarene.”
Interviewer: “Have you read Emil Ludwig’s book on Jesus?”
Einstein: “Emil Ludwig’s Jesus is shallow. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Chrisianity with a bon mot [a witty remark].”
Interviewer: “You accept the historical existence of Jesus?”
Einstein: “Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.”
“God loves everyone of us as if there were but one of us to love.” -Augustine
“These things I have spoken to you that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man, which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ.” -Blaise Pascal
“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” -Sir Isaac Newton
“Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” -Richard Dawkins (Harvard biology professor)
“Biologists have to remind themselves constantly that what they study was not designed but evolved.”-Crick (co-founder of DNA) “Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” -Winston Churchill
“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”
“Biblical faith, like the faith exercised by scientists, must be ‘informed’ faith, belief rooted in testable facts and logic, though not based on absolute proof. Too many people accept the erroneous notion that absolute proof is what scientists seek and find. Some demand absolute proof of God’s existence and of the reliability of Scripture as a condition of faith in Christ. Such a demand will never—can never—be met, certainly not within the time-and-space boundaries God has set for this life, for this ‘faith test’ He designed for us.”-Hugh Ross PhD (astrophysicist), The Genesis Question, pg. 184
“Imagine that the thickness of this [piece of paper] represents the distance from the earth to the sun. Using this scale, the distance to the nearest star is a 71-foot-high sheaf of paper. The diameter of our own galaxy is a 310-mile stack, while the edge of the known universe is not reached until the pile of paper is 31 million miles high!”-National Geographic Magazine, May 1974, page 592
“Those who reach, touch the stars.”-Flavia
“Cease striving and know that I am God.”-Psalm 46:10
“He changed sunset into sunrise.”-Clement of Alexandria
“God loves everyone of us as if there were but one of us to love.” -St. Augustine
“When a man believes himself to be utterly lost, light breaks” -Martin Luther
“Is this a life that leads to death, or a death that leads to life?”-Augustine of Hippo
'Today virtually everyone agrees that the universe and time itself had a beginning at the Big Bang' -Steven Hawking from The Nature of Space and Time, 1996
“God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.”-GK Chesterton
“The problem with Christianity is not that it has been tried and found wanting, but that it has been found difficult, and left untried.” -GK Chesterton
…”Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”-MLK April 3, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee |
Starting in college, I have collected over the years a box of 3x5 cards with my favorite quotes on them. I have now started to collect & share some of my favorite quotes here. |
