Apologetic Quote by C. S. Lewis Download Open image “A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.” — C. S. Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apologetic Atheism Crooked Crooked lines Doe God exists Ideas Lines Men Mere Problem of evil Proof god exists Proof of god Proof that god exists Straight line Straight lines Unjust
You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth. — John Locke Copy Share Image
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
No matter how sturdy, erudite or judicious you may be; you can never straighten out what is crooked; neither can you count things that… — Samuel Kermis Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . .… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses,… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in contact may… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should… — Piers Paul Read Copy Share Image
... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way. — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture. — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
