Quotes for Sunday

Here are a few quotes for Sunday. Enjoy!

Agnosticism:

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. - Orson Welles

Apologetics:

We need men and women who are willing to compete with secularists in defense of Christ and His truth. R. C. Sproul.

Atheism:

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist there is no God." - Heywood Broun

"If there were no God there would be no atheists." - G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"The Seventh Judicial Circuit of the Court of Appeals of the United States held that atheism is a religion and therefore it cannot be promoted by a public school. Currently public schools are promoting atheism through a dogmatic and uncritical teaching of materialistic theories of origins". - John Calvert, Intelligent Design leader

"Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding." - Plato

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny. - Joseph Addison

Religion:

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins

Theology Quote of the Day

This is from Perry Downs in his book entitled "Teaching for Spiritual Growth."

If Christian education is to be effective, it must recapture a proper understanding of the role of the mind in spiritual growth. The church must again value the way people think as an important aspect of being the people of God. We must learn to follow the biblical imperatives regarding the relationship of thinking and acting, valuing both the cognitive and the volitional in Christian living.

Perry Downs, Teaching for Spiritual Growth, (Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan Publishing House), 60.

Christian Quote from Lois LeBar

Lois LeBar in the book Education that is Christian has said a wonderful little statement about learning in a Christian context. In relation to the spiritual gifts, LeBar said, "It's futile to try to develop the gifts of the Spirit (1 Corinthians 12) before we have developed the the graces of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).

Oh church, a truer statement was never uttered. Learn from it and live a life that is Christian to the Core.