--- title: "2 Apologetics Quotes By William Lane Craig" description: "2 Apologetics quotes by William Lane Craig. Plus more from William Lane Craig and more Apologetics sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/537/william-lane-craig-8716_christian-faith_certainty-is-an-unrealistic-and-unattain_584212.jpg" --- > [“Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal. We need to have pastors who are schooled in apologetics and engaged intellectually with our culture so as to shepherd their flock amidst the wolves. People who simply ride the roller coaster of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/certainty-is-an-unrealistic-and-unattainable-ideal-we-need-to-have/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/537/william-lane-craig-8716_christian-faith_certainty-is-an-unrealistic-and-unattain_584212.jpg) > [It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/it-s-no-longer-enough-to-teach-our-children-bible-stories-they-need/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72b/william-lane-craig-8716_apologetic_it-s-no-longer-enough-to-teach-our-child_1620549.jpg) ## Other authors on Apologetics - [Criss Jami 37 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/criss-jami/) - [Jon Morrison 19 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/jon-morrison/) - [Michael Ben Zehabe 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/michael-ben-zehabe/) ## More by William Lane Craig > [Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/part-of-the-broader-task-of-christian-scholarship-is-to-help-create/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/the-point-is-this-if-god-does-not-exist-then-life-is-objectively/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [“By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of preserving Israel’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/by-setting-such-strong-harsh-dichotomies-god-taught-israel-that-any/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/if-you-re-sincerely-seeking-god-god-will-make-his-existence-evident/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/scepticism-ironically-draws-its-life-s-blood-from-claims-to-have-a/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [“...if there's a supernatural agent that is working in the natural world, then the idealized conditions described by the law are no longer in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/if-there-s-a-supernatural-agent-that-is-working-in-the-natural-world/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [If true love came at a price, the price would be all worth while if i was spending it on you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/if-true-love-came-at-a-price-the-price-would-be-all-worth-while-if-i/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [“There are various virtues of what counts as a best explanation, and I imagine familiarity is one of them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/there-are-various-virtues-of-what-counts-as-a-best-explanation-and-i/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [People think of time as a continuum composed of points which is stretched out at a line, and even if you add a direction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/people-think-of-time-as-a-continuum-composed-of-points-which-is/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [“...if God does not exist and there is no immortality, then all the evil acts of men go unpunished and all the sacrifices of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/if-god-does-not-exist-and-there-is-no-immortality-then-all-the-evil/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [“So how do you find out what God thinks? The Christian says, you look in the Bible. And the Bible tells us that God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/so-how-do-you-find-out-what-god-thinks-the-christian-says-you-look-in/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/so-whom-does-god-wrong-in-commanding-the-destruction-of-the/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [ Richard \[Carrier\] takes the extremist position that Jesus of Nazareth never even existed, that there was no such person in history. This is a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/richard-carrier-takes-the-extremist-position-that-jesus-of-nazareth/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [ I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament \[Stormont\] afterwards. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/i-am-an-orangeman-first-and-a-politician-and-member-of-this/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) > [“In addition to these physical problems, sexually transmitted diseases are rampant among the homosexual population. 75% of homosexual men carry one or more sexually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/in-addition-to-these-physical-problems-sexually-transmitted-diseases/) [William Lane Craig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lane-craig/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/william-lane-craig/#itemlist", "name": "2 Apologetics Quotes By William Lane Craig", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal. We need to have pastors who are schooled in apologetics and engaged intellectually with our culture so as to shepherd their flock amidst the wolves. People who simply ride the roller coaster of emotional experience are cheating themselves out of a deeper and richer Christian faith by neglecting the intellectual side of that faith. They know little of the riches of deep understanding of Christian truth, of the confidence inspired by the discovery that one’s faith is logical and fits the facts of experience, and of the stability brought to one’s life by the conviction that one’s faith is objectively true. God could not possibly have intended that reason should be the faculty to lead us to faith, for faith cannot hang indefinitely in suspense while reason cautiously weighs and reweighs arguments. The Scriptures teach, on the contrary, that the way to God is by means of the heart, not by means of the intellect. When a person refuses to come to Christ, it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God’s Spirit on his heart. unbelief is at root a spiritual, not an intellectual, problem. Sometimes an unbeliever will throw up an intellectual smoke screen so that he can avoid personal, existential involvement with the gospel. In such a case, further argumentation may be futile and counterproductive, and we need to be sensitive to moments when apologetics is and is not appropriate. A person who knows that Christianity is true on the basis of the witness of the Spirit may also have a sound apologetic which reinforces or confirms for him the Spirit’s witness, but it does not serve as the basis of his belief. As long as reason is a minister of the Christian faith, Christians should employ it. It should not surprise us if most people find our apologetic unconvincing. But that does not mean that our apologetic is ineffective; it may only mean that many people are closed-minded. Without a divine lawgiver, there can be no objective right and wrong, only our culturally and personally relative, subjective judgments. This means that it is impossible to condemn war, oppression, or crime as evil. Nor can one praise brotherhood, equality, and love as good. For in a universe without God, good and evil do not exist—there is only the bare valueless fact of existence, and there is no one to say that you are right and I am wrong. No atheist or agnostic really lives consistently with his worldview. In some way he affirms meaning, value, or purpose without an adequate basis. It is our job to discover those areas and lovingly show him where those beliefs are groundless. We are witnesses to a mighty struggle for the mind and soul of America in our day, and Christians cannot be indifferent to it. If moral values are gradually discovered, not invented, then our gradual and fallible apprehension of the moral realm no more undermines the objective reality of that realm than our gradual, fallible apprehension of the physical world undermines the objectivity of that realm. God has given evidence sufficiently clear for those with an open heart, but sufficiently vague so as not to compel those whose hearts are closed. Because of the need for instruction and personal devotion, these writings must have been copied many times, which increases the chances of preserving the original text. In fact, no other ancient work is available in so many copies and languages, and yet all these various versions agree in content. The text has also remained unmarred by heretical additions. The abundance of manuscripts over a wide geographical distribution demonstrates that the text has been transmitted with only trifling discrepancies.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William Lane Craig" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/certainty-is-an-unrealistic-and-unattainable-ideal-we-need-to-have/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/537/william-lane-craig-8716_christian-faith_certainty-is-an-unrealistic-and-unattain_584212.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/537/william-lane-craig-8716_christian-faith_certainty-is-an-unrealistic-and-unattain_584212.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/537/william-lane-craig-8716_christian-faith_certainty-is-an-unrealistic-and-unattain_584212.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal. We need to have pastors who are schooled in apologetics…” — William Lane Craig", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William Lane Craig" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lane-craig/it-s-no-longer-enough-to-teach-our-children-bible-stories-they-need/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72b/william-lane-craig-8716_apologetic_it-s-no-longer-enough-to-teach-our-child_1620549.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72b/william-lane-craig-8716_apologetic_it-s-no-longer-enough-to-teach-our-child_1620549.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72b/william-lane-craig-8716_apologetic_it-s-no-longer-enough-to-teach-our-child_1620549.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.” — William Lane Craig", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/william-lane-craig/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/william-lane-craig/", "name": "Apologetics Quotes by William Lane Craig", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/william-lane-craig/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/537/william-lane-craig-8716_christian-faith_certainty-is-an-unrealistic-and-unattain_584212.jpg" }, "description": "2 Apologetics quotes by William Lane Craig. Plus more from William Lane Craig and more Apologetics sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/william-lane-craig/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/william-lane-craig/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Apologetics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "William Lane Craig", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apologetics/william-lane-craig/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```