Top 70 Eric Metaxas Quotes

I guess I’m concerned that vulgarity has now officially entered the mainstream of our culture, and I think people have to respectfully stand up and say, ‘No thanks.’

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.

David Frum, every now and again, comes up with something pretty darn brilliant.

One of my favorite things about America is our breathtaking collection of national and state parks, many of which boast wonders the Psalmist would envy.

Part of my life‘s thesis is that we live in a culture that has bought into the patently silly idea that there is a divide between the secular world and the faith world.

It’s a fact that if Hillary Clinton is elected, the country‘s chance to have a Supreme Court that values the Constitution – and the genuine liberty and self-government for which millions have died – is gone. Not for four years, or eight, but forever.

God designed humans to live in community.

Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they’re about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That’s the point of miracles – to point us beyond our world to another world.

Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren’t known to fly off the shelves.

For at least a decade, Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, and stuck on social media. While that may not be entirely fair, they are notoriously liberal, overwhelmingly supporting left-leaning candidates and favoring policies like nationalized healthcare and same-sex ‘marriage.’

Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can’t have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free.

Every single cell in each person’s body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human being in history whose cells have some mixture of the two, nor anyone who has ever been able to change that cellular reality.

Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.

All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.

Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant – from the moment of our creation – to live forever.

Sometimes you have to hold your nose and vote for the person who is going to do the least damage or who is maybe going to pull you back from the brink.

I thought a book on miracles might be a great idea, but just because it’s a great idea doesn’t mean I’m supposed to do it. But my editor persisted, and eventually I thought, ‘He’s right. I should write this book.’

Language is powerful. Words matter.

Here’s one thing the media and all of us should learn: Trump is not wrong nearly as much as everybody says he’s wrong.

Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that’s most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord‘s kingdom.

Being an American is something we need to learn and understand.

America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.

Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.

The freedoms we have enjoyed in America – and spread around the world – are incredibly fragile freedoms.

Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That’s Christianity to me.

Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with ‘deserve.’

You can’t fool children.

We’re commanded by God to worship God with our mind.

The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.

Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.

To be labeled a ‘science-denier’ in 2017 often just means you’ve upset someone who insists on teaching strict, Darwinian orthodoxy in schools or who advocates particular climate legislation or who supports ethically fraught research on embryos.

I’m willing to give Pat Robertson a pass when he says things he shouldn’t. That’s because for every wacky, regrettable thing he says, he does a hundred thousand non-wacky good things that you’ll never hear about on television.

The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.

I’m the author of several books, including children’s books.

Even if you aren’t a believer, there are incredible stories in the ‘good book‘ that I guarantee you will keep you glued to the page. The Bible is no less a part of our cultural heritage than Shakespeare is – and by the way, Shakespeare’s plays are absolutely loaded with Biblical references.

Work allows us to take care of God’s creation and bring glory to Him as His stewards.

Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond ‘eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.’

The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.

Let me tell you something you already know: reading is critically important – especially for Christian believers. God, after all, reveals Himself to us in the written words of Scripture. Think about it: when we read the Word, we place ourselves in the very presence of God.

We may have city lights and the glow of touch screens to obscure our view, but God’s world is still near at hand, even right here in New York City where I live.

Where did God come from? It’s certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind spots, motes, beams, and distortions.

As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I’ve published humor in the ‘New York Times‘ and ‘Atlantic,’ among other places.

When you have a biblical idea of men’s strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others.

As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God’s ability to provide for or protect us.

I have no doubt, if people are really seeking the big questions, it will lead them to the Lord.

The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something – or Someone – beyond itself.

We’ve always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.

When Trump says America first, it doesn’t mean cheering for America only. It means if you want to care for your neighbors, you have to make sure that you are yourself, first, healthy.

Miracles seem to attest to the presence of a loving and compassionate God, one who wants to help us, who wants to speak to us and encourage us.

Everyone needs to stop and breathe and look at how redefining marriage will have a hugely chilling effect on religious liberty in America.

Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun.

I think most people have no idea about what religious freedom means.

We all can do our part to address America’s anger mismanagement crisis. And for us Christians, it starts with a little more faith, hope, and love.

Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.

Doesn’t assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?

People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself!

No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future!

Men and women are complements to each other, physically and otherwise.

If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle.

Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy.

A Christian worldview impacts every area of life. Including making your house a home.

The truth is many singles deeply desire and pray for marriage.

Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

Trump errs on the side of bluster sometimes for effect, but I don’t think that the people who voted for him, most of them, would ever be for not caring for immigrants or refugees. People in the church know it’s our obligation.

Every country has things to be proud of and to celebrate.

America is the only nation in the world based on an idea – freedom and self-government – so if we don’t understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I’m no prude, exactly.

Donald Trump’s rise is certainly a symptom of our fading virtue and faith, but ironically, he may well be our only hope for finding our way back to bolder expressions of them.