Quotes by Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas

…when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn’t join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn’t. ‘If you board the wrong train,’ he said, ‘it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

Christian

Order

Running

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Atheism

Knows

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Faith

Inspirational

Life

Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as possible without attempting to help it along or dress it up.

Challenges

Dresses

Helping

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

Bonhoeffer

Lasts

Thoughts Of Death

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Christianity

Church

Germs

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God’s word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Limits

Ships

Trying

Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm’s fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen’s works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There’s something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.

Book

Christian

Fate

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

Bees

Fleas

Wrens

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Heard

Prayer

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Break

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Children

Christ

Christian

Christianity

Church

Concerned

Culture

Cynical

Dark

Democracy

Dependent

Dream

Dresses

Easy

Educational

Eight

Enemy

Facts

Faith

Fate

Fleas

Fragile

Germs

Goal

Gone

Government

Heard

Helping

Ideas

Ifs

Inspirational

Jesus

Knows

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Quotes by Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas

…when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn’t join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn’t. ‘If you board the wrong train,’ he said, ‘it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as possible without attempting to help it along or dress it up.

Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God’s word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

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