All Eric Metaxas Quotes
- It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity. Activity
- There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none. All
- He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it. God
- It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it. Behind
- Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom. Bonhoeffer
- 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… Americans
- Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) Bonhoeffer
- Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is. All
- The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped. Break
- 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… Along
- Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion. Dead
- 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… Bow
- Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power. All
- Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance. Act
- True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light Dark
- We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority. Accepting
- 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… Answer
- 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… Butterfly
- ...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… Along
- 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… All
- Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word.… Axiomatic
- Many years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned these infamous… Adolf