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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

“All thinking men are atheists.”

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Sir Isaac Newton had a perfectly scaled down replica of the then known solar system built for his studies. A large golden ball represented the sun at the center, and the known planets revolved around ...

In this excerpt from his book Faith in the Shadows, pastor and author Austin Fischer shares a surprising truth about the need to be vulnerable with our own faith if we are likely to have a positive im...

Fred Allen (1984-1956) was a famous American comedian, writer, and radio star. When fellow comic Jack Parr first met Allen, he burst out, “You are my God!” Allen replied with the characteristic wit of...

One of my friends developed a PowerPoint presentation with a set of “dueling fish” images to illustrate this point. In the first image, a believer puts a Jesus fish on his car. Then his atheist neighb...

The second lesson this group of new believers has shown us is that the postmodern path to faith is organic. Lostness, of course, looks different depending upon your perspective and personality. It is ...

The opposite of faith isn't doubt; it's certainty and control.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God,...

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

An atheist was walking through the woods, admiring all the “accidents” that evolution had created. “What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!” he said. Suddenly he heard a ru...

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections -- a mere heart of stone.

A theology of response does not need to be Pelagian; it need only be a theology in which the reality of the human is taken seriously.

The truth is simpler… and more alarming. [This] is the end of religious experience, the very opposite of mysticism…. We have been going round the paths, and suddenly we see our path goes round a hole,...

Faith is a free surrender and a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

Kurt Vonnegut famously said, “I am a human being, not a human doing.” Vonnegut was an avowed atheist and president of the American Humanist Association, but his observation parallels the orthodox Chri...

Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligious world, h...

I believe in Christ and confess him not like some child; my hosanna has passed through an enormous furnace of doubt.

When we are regularly shamed away from thoughts that venture near spirituality and transcendence, we learn to avoid it altogether, even in our thoughts. We develop a resistance to thoughts that would ...

Modernity slowly weakened spirituality, by design and accident, in favor of commerce; it downplayed silence and mere being in favor of noise and constant action. The reason we live in a culture increa...

The god of Consumer Christianity does not inspire awe and wonder because he is nothing more than a commodity to be used for our personal satisfaction and self-achievement.

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

This is an age where our sense of spiritual possibility, transcendence, and the presence of God has been drained out. What’s left is a spiritual desert, and Christians face the temptation to accept th...