Eric Metaxas famous quotes

04-19-2025

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

#Believe #Chance #Belief
Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Lasts #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
-- Eric Metaxas

#Trying #Limits #Ships
The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seemed to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Children #Accomplishment #Tree
He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Butterfly #Mind #Purpose
He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Prayer #Heard
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Ties #Church #Speak
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.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Christian #Book #Fate
If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Reality #Facts
Atheism tells him what he isnâ€™t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Atheism
It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Principles #Easy #Motive
...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.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Christian #Running #Order
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Real #Goal #Democracy
Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Threatening
There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Reality #Christ #Lord
It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Prayer #Apathy #Passiveness
The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Break
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
-- Eric Metaxas

#Church #Germs #Christianity
Many years later, after NiemÃ¶ller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned these infamous words: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionist, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. And then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Eight #Years #Firsts
The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Christian #Church #Culture
Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Dream #Educational #Reality
Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Wrens #Fleas #Bees
They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Answers #Theological #Concerned
We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Gone #Way #Authority
True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light
-- Eric Metaxas

#Dark #Light #Leap
When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. Theyâ€™ve substituted a toothless â€˜freedom of worshipâ€™ for â€˜freedom of religionâ€™.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Lying #Government #Cynical
Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Jesus #Enemy
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.
-- Eric Metaxas

#Challenges #Dresses #Helping

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