Lee Strobel, once a staunch atheist, after investigating the claims of Christianity gave his heart to Jesus in 1981. For the past 40 plus years Strobel has been one of America’s leading apologists and has proven an immense encouragement to my own walk with the Lord. Below are many of his quotes on the Christian faith that are designed to cause even the skeptic to consider the claims of Christianity.1
“To continue in atheism, I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn’t have that much faith.”
“Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus’ decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most breathtaking and gut-wrenching challenges of his entire Sermon on the Mount, a speech renowned for its outrageous claims. There was no record of any other spiritual leader ever having articulated such a clear-cut, unambiguous command for people to express compassion to those who are actively working against their best interests.”
“Believing the right things about Jesus isn’t enough. You’re not adopted as God’s child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you’ll always be on the outside looking in.”
“I’ve seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.”
“The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus’ divine identity and his inspired teaching. It’s the proof of his triumph over sin and death. It’s the foreshadowing of the resurrection of his followers. It’s the basis of Christian hope. It’s the miracle of all miracles.”
“Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, corroborating the disciples’ conviction that they encountered the resurrected Jesus. That’s an avalanche of data.”
“So much of the world’s suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It’s our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.”
“All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe – not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.”
“Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.”
“I find the evidence for the deity of Jesus and the reliability of the Bible to be powerful and persuasive, and that evidence has only gotten stronger over the years.”
“Christianity is a very historical religion – it makes specific claims that are open to testing.”
“If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He’s terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.”
“There is no way you can harmonize Neo-Darwinism and Christianity.”
“You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.”
“Nobody is beyond the reach of the Gospel.”
“The question is not ‘Will God grant you a do-over?’ The Bible promises, ‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness’ (1 John 1:9). God is anxious to give you a do-over; the question is whether you’re willing to reach out and ask for one.”
“If the gospels had been identical to each other, word for word, this would have raised charges that the authors had conspired among themselves to coordinate their stories in advance, and that would have cast doubt on them.”
“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.”
1 All of the quotes below are from the following website:
TOP 25 QUOTES BY LEE STROBEL (of 67) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)