187 Quotes by Eric Metaxas

As President Truman put it, “Being an American is more than a matter of where you or your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal.

We’ve gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Bonhoeffer’s interest was not only in teaching them as a university lecturer. He wished to “disciple” them in the true life of the Christian. This ran the gamut, from understanding current events through a biblical lens to reading the Bible not just as a theology student but as a disciple of Jesus Christ.

At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God. But.

Bethge remembered some of Bonhoeffer’s advice: “Write your sermon in daylight; do not write it all at once; ‘in Christ’ there is no room for conditional clauses; the first minutes on the pulpit are the most favorable, so do not waste them with generalities but confront the congregation straight off with the core of the matter; extemporaneous preaching can be done by anyone who really knows the Bible.

A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.

It’s our job to “keep” the republic called America, and we can hardly keep what we don’t even know we have. So.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic .