Quotes about Belief

Materialists thereby deny the reality of mind (while they use their minds to advance materialism), determinists deny the reality of human choice (while they choose determinism), and relativists deny the fact of right and wrong (while they judge you if you disagree).

Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of God. Thus, it had no power to resist His will but would obey he rules He had laid down- with mathematical precision.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

That to which your heart clings and entrusts itself is, I say, really your God.

When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.

ironically the term tolerance is used to justify intolerance toward Christianity.

if you cannot identify the divine in any positive way, how do you even know it is real?

postmodernists are just as concerned about objective truth as anyone else. Dallas Willard comments, "I have noticed that the most emphatic of Postmodernists turn coldly modern when discussing their fringe benefits or other matters that make a great difference to their practical life." 35 If we use the metaphor that a worldview is a mental map, postmodernists keep walking off their map. It is too small to account for the full geography of who they are.

Like every alternative to Christianity, the mechanistic worldview was essentially a substitute religion, a mental idol.

The reason we are justified in trusting our minds is that God designed them to "fit" the world he created.

In every field, Christians must learn critical thinking skills. Otherwise, we may simply absorb idol-based philosophies from the intellectual atmosphere.

False ideas are the greatest obstacle to the reception of the gospel."13 Not pop culture. Not consumerism. Not moral temptation. False ideas.