Christianity
is not just a mental assent that certain doctrines are true -- not even that the
right doctrines are true. This is only the beginning. This would be rather like
a starving man sitting in front of great heaps of food and saying, "I believe
the food exists; I believe it is real," and yet never eating it. It is not
enough merely to say, "I am a Christian," and then in practice to live as if
present contact with the supernatural were something far off and strange. Many
Christians I know seem to act as though they come in contact with the
supernatural just twice -- once when they are justified and become a Christian
and once when they die. The rest of the time they act as though they were
sitting in the materialist's chair. - Francis Schaeffer
Our
twentieth century, far from being notable for scientific scepticism, is one of
the most credulous eras in all history. It is not that people believe in nothing
-- which would be bad enough -- but that they believe in anything -- which is
really terrible. - Malcolm Muggeridge
If
the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no
meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no
creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without
meaning. - A. W. Tozer
Without
God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy
manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with
dignity while having no reference point for that dignity. - R. C. Sproul
The
atheist is, morally, as well as mentally, a fool, a fool in the heart as well as
in the head; a fool in morals as well as in philosophy. With the denial of God
as a starting point, we may well conclude that the fool’s progress is a rapid,
riotous, raving, ruinous one. He who begins at impiety is ready for anything.
“No God,” being interpreted, means no law, no order, no restraint to lust, no
limit to passion. - Charles Spurgeon
A
man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic
can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
- C. S. Lewis
Do
not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is
perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and
selfishness that have chilled his faith. - Thomas Merton
Christianity
is not just a mental assent that certain doctrines are true -- not even that the
right doctrines are true. This is only the beginning. This would be rather like
a starving man sitting in front of great heaps of food and saying, "I believe
the food exists; I believe it is real," and yet never eating it. It is not
enough merely to say, "I am a Christian," and then in practice to live as if
present contact with the supernatural were something far off and strange. Many
Christians I know seem to act as though they come in contact with the
supernatural just twice -- once when they are justified and become a Christian
and once when they die. The rest of the time they act as though they were
sitting in the materialist's chair. - Francis Schaeffer
Our
twentieth century, far from being notable for scientific scepticism, is one of
the most credulous eras in all history. It is not that people believe in nothing
-- which would be bad enough -- but that they believe in anything -- which is
really terrible. - Malcolm Muggeridge
If
the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no
meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no
creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without
meaning. - A. W. Tozer
Without
God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy
manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with
dignity while having no reference point for that dignity. - R. C. Sproul
The
atheist is, morally, as well as mentally, a fool, a fool in the heart as well as
in the head; a fool in morals as well as in philosophy. With the denial of God
as a starting point, we may well conclude that the fool’s progress is a rapid,
riotous, raving, ruinous one. He who begins at impiety is ready for anything.
“No God,” being interpreted, means no law, no order, no restraint to lust, no
limit to passion. - Charles Spurgeon
A
man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic
can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
- C. S. Lewis
Do
not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is
perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and
selfishness that have chilled his faith. - Thomas Merton