252 Quotes About Apologetics

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

Jesus obviously does not answer many questions from you or me. Which is why apologetics is always such a questionable enterprise. Jesus just doesn’t argue.

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

If the Church is indeed the Bride of Christ, then a Christian who loves hating other Christians is like a wife who hates loving her family.

We are all brothers and sisters. We are all of one blood (Acts 17:22-31).

History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.

If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse.