"The intellectual decision most urgently facing humanity in our time is whether to acknowledge or disown Jesus Christ as the hope of The world and whether Christian values are to be: the arbiter of human civilization in the present instead of only in the final judgment of men and nations."Carl Henry
John Piper - desiring God
James White - Alpha-Omega Ministries
R.C. Sproul - Ligonier Ministries
Mark Dever - CHBC
Albert Mohler - SBTS
Paul Washer - Heart Cry
Dr. A. E. Wilder Smith
"The Bible teaches us that we are the living lessons that God uses to demonstrate His divine wisdom to the angelic beings as He works in us. How God deals with us in this world demonstrates His character to the angels!" Dr. A. E. Wilder Smith
"Christendom must have people who can beat down their adversaries and opponents and tear off the devil's equipment and armor, that he may be brought into disgrace. But for this work, powerful warriors are needed, who are thoroughly familiar with the Scriptures and can contradict all false interpretations and take the sword from false teachers." Martin Luther
Ligon Duncan - First Presbyterian
William L Craig - Reasonable Faith
Alistair Begg - Truth For Life
Greg Koukl - Stand To Reason
Del Tackett - The Truth Project
Jason Lisle - Answers In Genesis
Quotes by C.S. Lewis
The Abolition of Man:
"The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."
"Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism."
"As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'"
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."
"The preservation of society, and of the species itself, are ends that do not hang on the precarious thread of Reason: they are given by Instinct."
"If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them."
"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."
"An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy."
"Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position."
"If we are to have values at all we must accept the ultimate platitudes of Practical Reason as having absolute validity..."
"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."
"Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man."
"No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power."
"If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all."
Ravi Zacharias - RZIM
Lee Patrick Strobel
David Noebel - Summit Ministries
Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living
CJ Mahaney - Sovereign Grace Ministries
Steve Lawson - New Reformation
Quotes by C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity:
"The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys..."
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is..."
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
"The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe."
"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self—all your wishes and precautions—to Christ."
"[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that."
"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying."
"Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self..."
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."
"When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all."
"You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house."
"There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails...If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft."
"Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable."
"All that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
William Dembski - Design Inference
Ken Ham - Answers in Genesis
"To be ignorant and simple now - not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground - would be to throw down our weapons, and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. The learned life then, is for some, a duty."C.S. Lewis
Quotes by C.S. Lewis The Problem of Pain:
"If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?"
"Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
"Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."
"God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense."
"From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it."
"A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun."
"For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being."
"What is outside the system of self-giving is no earth, nor nature, nor 'ordinary life', but simply and solely Hell. Yet even Hell derives from this law such reality as it has."
"That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality..."
"At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it."
"The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success."
"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."
"[One] can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity."
"When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."
"This act of self-will on the part of the creature, which constitutes an utter falseness to its true creaturely position, is the only sin that can be conceived as the Fall."
