“Our present world contains clues…to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.”1
“The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.”
“Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.”
“We live on earth; our homeland is in heaven.”
“Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.”
“Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.”
“The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.”
“Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.”
“All the important things in life lie beyond reason… and that’s just the way things are.”
“Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, ‘There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason.’”
“Christianity offers a worldview that leads to the generation of moral values and ideals that are able to give moral meaning and dignity to our existence.”
“The Christian apologist should be able to present God in his full attractiveness so that his rivals in the world are eclipsed.”
“Faith reaches out to where reason points and does not limit itself to where reason stops.”
“Apologetics is about persuading people that there is a door to another world—a door that perhaps they never realized existed. Evangelism is about helping people to open that door and enter into the new world that lies beyond.”
“Tyndale was strangled in October 1536, and his dead body then burned at the stake. Tyndale’s fate is an important reminder that biblical translation was more than just a scholarly challenge in the early sixteenth century—it was, in Tyndale’s case, illegal, dangerous, and ultimately fatal.”
“God’s existence may not be proved, in the hard rationalist sense of the word. Yet it can be affirmed with complete sincerity that belief in God is eminently reasonable and makes more sense of what we see in the world, discern in history, and experience in our lives than its alternatives.”
“Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this – not contradicting, but transcending reason.”
“One of the great themes of the Christian Bible is that, whenever God asks us to do something for him, he gives us the gifts we need to do it. Knowing us for what we are, he equips us for what he wants us to do.”
“God does not conform to our expectations; He exceeds them.”
“The pursuit of truth is a sacred journey.”
“Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.”
1 All of these quotations listed in this devotion are from the following websites:
Top 50 ALISTER E. MCGRATH quotes and sayings
10 Alister McGrath Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
I love these quotes affirming apologetics as a means to reach the undecided.