187 Quotes by Eric Metaxas

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

The Scriptures were plain and could not be gainsaid on this most basic point: all that was his – his wealth, his talents, his time – was not really his. It all belonged to God and had been given to him to use for God’s purposes and according to God’s will. God had blessed him so that he, in turn, might bless others, especially those less fortunate than himself.

Some problems cannot be cured through legislation. But they must be attended to nonetheless. And here’s the problem: The less the culture attends to these things, the more the government will attend to them and the less freedom there will be.

Speak out for those who cannot speak” – who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?

Self-government will not work unless the citizens bear the responsibility to vote in such a way that continues their freedoms and their ability to have free elections, that continues their economic prosperity. They have to vote in a way that does not trade the future for the present. This.

G. K. Chesterton once said that “America is the only nation that is founded on a creed.

Actions must follow what one believed, else one could not claim to believe it.

He differentiated between Christianity as a religion like all the others – which attempt but fail to make an ethical way for man to climb to heaven of his own accord – and following Christ, who demands everything, including our very lives.

The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.