William Lane Craig Quotes

Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal.
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Ideal Realistic Thinking
It’s no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.
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Enough Need Teaching Yourself
I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards.
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Myself Parliament Politics
In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is studied in physics that became the object of philosophical speculation. That’s very different from the way time has normally been understood.
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Greatness Philosophy Physics Science Time Understand
No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.
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Argument Darkness Failure God Light Love Yourself
The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.
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Clear Myself Possible Provide
The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God’s existence apart from divine revelation.
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Accompany Divine Existence God Philosophy Reveal Seek Theology
I do plan my study day. I think that prioritizing is absolutely critical. It is so critical that you understand what is important and what can be left undone. Then you will base your schedule on your priorities. You’ve got to be single-minded about your priorities.
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Mindset Planning Priority Study Thinking Yourself
The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.
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Atheist Best Flinch Follow Person Pursuit Reason
Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.
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Commitment Faith Thinking True Trust Yourself
The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.
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Existence God Object Right Wrong Yourself
More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ. This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.
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Apology Believe God Life Yourself
If you’re sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.
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Evidence Existence God Seek Sincere Yourself
Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.
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Belief Evidence Fundamental Holy Rise Spirit
It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.
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Chance Combination Independent Myself
The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus’ resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.
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Belief Existence Found Himself History Powerful Simplicity
Catching the apple doesn’t overturn the law of gravity or the formulation of a new law. It’s merely an intervention of a person with freewill who overrides the natural causes operative in that particular circumstance. And that is, essentially, is what God does when he causes a miracle to occur.
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Circumstance Essential Gravity Himself Law Miracle Natural Operation Person
Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.
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Apology Failure Harvest Success Thinking Water
The man who feels like he’s a woman trapped in a man’s body, when he goes into the ladies room, it’s the other women whose privacy it seems to me as being violated by having this man walk in… regardless of how he feels.
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Body Feeling Himself Lady Man Trap Woman
Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.
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Creation Help Man Option Scripture Thinking Woman
Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.
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Better Faith Help Ourselves Reason Seek Understand
For the assertion that “There is no God” is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that “There is a God.” Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.
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Future God Justice Knowledge
The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.
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Darkness Evidence Face Faith Mindset Myself

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