114 Quotes by Lee Strobel

But your love goes beyond that. You can know all these things about your wife and not be in love with her and put your trust in her, but you do. So the decision goes beyond the evidence, yet it is there also on the basis of the evidence. So it is with falling in love with Jesus. To have a relationship with Jesus Christ goes beyond just knowing the historical facts about him, yet it’s rooted in the historical facts about him.

If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don’t see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that’s not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ says C. S. Lewis.

A lot of people don’t give much thought to what they believe, and it’s easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.

I think it’s very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.

Hell was not part of the original creation. Hell is God’s fall-back position. Hell is something God was forced to make because people chose to rebel against him and turn against what was best for them and the purpose for which they were created.

We can’t treat the Bible with kid gloves. We really need to wrestle with the issues, because our faith depends on it.

We have to ask, Why is there no other first-century Jew who has millions of followers today? Why isn’t there a John the Baptist movement? Why, of all first-century figures, including the Roman emperors, is Jesus still worshiped today, while the others have crumbled into the dust of history?

Mother Teresa used the analogy of electricity: “The wire is you and me; the current is God,” she said. “We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, and produce the light of the world – Jesus.