Quotes from Eric Metaxas

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

It was therefore anti-Christ, and he knew that to expose it as such was the most important thing imaginable.

Respect for truth and for other human beings of different opinions formed the foundation of a civil society in which one might disagree graciously and might reason together civilly and productively.

German culture was inescapably Christian. This was a result of the legacy of Martin Luther, the Catholic monk who invented Protestantism. Looming over the German culture and nation like both a father and a mother, Luther was to Germany something like what Moses was to Israel;

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.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

How do we know that dying is so dreadful? Who knows whether in our human fear and anguish, we are only shivering and shuddering at the most glorious, heavenly blessed event in the world? Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

That country where they wouldn't be told what to think or how to live or even whether or how to worship.

Do the right thing, seek the truth, defend the weak, live courageous lives.

To try to preemptively shut down debate with name-calling is profoundly un-American and will harm this country.

If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.

True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light. We shouldn't be afraid of the facts. If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.