187 Quotes by Eric Metaxas

The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for me. ‘These words struck through my heart, and I knew that God for Christ’s sake had forgiven me all my sins.’ – Susanna Wesley.

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

The Nazis were anti-Christian, but they would pretend to be Christians as long as it served their purposes of getting theologically ignorant Germans on their side against the Jews.

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 powers besides itself.

Tomorrow is Sunday. I wonder if I shall hear a sermon?

The ‘success’ of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and ‘grasps’ us, or we cannot be ’grasped.

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. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Do not defend God’s Word, but testify to it .

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 next thing to no particular purpose – indeed, he called it his “butterfly mind.