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Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance. — Eric Metaxas

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths. — Eric Metaxas

Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us. I — Eric Metaxas

We must be able to speak about our faith so that hands will be stretched out toward us faster than we can fill them. — Eric Metaxas

the brilliant balance of the gospel that Luther so persistently expounded - "We are saved by faith alone, but not by faith which is alone. — Eric Metaxas

[Boenhoeffer] had an extraordinarily even temperament, capable of ignoring anger, anxiety and discouragement. He seemed unable to despise anyone. — Eric Metaxas

Accomplishments should be on the lips of all — Eric Metaxas

If you take God and faith and morality out of the equation, everything inevitably falls apart. — Eric Metaxas

The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped. — Eric Metaxas

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion. — Eric Metaxas

Actions must follow what one believed, else one could not claim to believe it. — Eric Metaxas

The only fight which is lost is that which we give up. — Eric Metaxas

By praying "his" prayers - the Psalms of the Old Testament, which Jesus prayed - we effectively piggyback on them all the way to heaven. — Eric Metaxas

The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide. — Eric Metaxas

It must be made quite clear - terrifying though it is - that we are immediately faced with the decision: National Socialist or Christian ... — Eric Metaxas

democracy without real patriotism moves toward the destruction of the ordered liberty bequeathed to us by the founders. — Eric Metaxas

It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation," he said. "Posterity will huzza for us."32 — Eric Metaxas

so true is it that a gracious hand leads us in ways that we know not, and blesses us not only without, but even against, our plans and inclinations. — Eric Metaxas

The Gospel of Christ was the most powerful sociological leveler in history, — Eric Metaxas

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again. — Eric Metaxas

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light — Eric Metaxas

Moujiks. Right. What's a moujik?" the Tsar asked.
"Peasants, your majesty."
"Pheasants?"
"No! Peasants. — Eric Metaxas

we build him a temple, but we live in our own houses." Religion — Eric Metaxas

May he at the last bind us to his triumphal carriage so that, although in bonds oppressed, we may participate in his victory! — Eric Metaxas

To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes. — Eric Metaxas

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself. — Eric Metaxas

Things you might want to talk about in such a group? — Eric Metaxas

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it. — Eric Metaxas

A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant. — Eric Metaxas

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority. — Eric Metaxas

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it. — Eric Metaxas

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom. — Eric Metaxas

One day we shall know and see what today we believe; one day we shall hold a service together in eternity. — Eric Metaxas

Atheism tells him what he isn't, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is. — Eric Metaxas

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power. — Eric Metaxas

By the time Whitefield died in 1770, an inconceivable 80 percent of the population of the American colonies had heard him preach at least once. — Eric Metaxas

She firmly believes feminism to be anti-woman because it pressures women to become more like men. Everyone — Eric Metaxas

If I know something to be true, am I prepared to follow it even though it is contrary to what I want[?] — Eric Metaxas

We can pray only in Jesus Christ, with whom we shall also be heard. — Eric Metaxas

How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence." - — Eric Metaxas

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness. — Eric Metaxas

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none. — Eric Metaxas

True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light. — Eric Metaxas

Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world. — Eric Metaxas

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) — Eric Metaxas

Einstein himself said, You can speak of the ethical foundations of science, but you cannot speak of the scientific foundations of ethics. — Eric Metaxas

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history. — Eric Metaxas

herding cats and shoveling smoke. — Eric Metaxas

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity. — Eric Metaxas

The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination. — Eric Metaxas

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain. — Eric Metaxas

Speak out for those who cannot speak - who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us? — Eric Metaxas

Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. — Eric Metaxas