Eric Metaxas Quotes

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• It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
• There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.
• He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.
• It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.
• Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.
• The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won…
• Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
• Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.
• The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.
• Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as…
• Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.
• When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building…
• Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.
• Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.
• True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light
• We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.
• They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that…
• He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the…
• ...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If…
• With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other…

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