The Scriptures are written the every-day language of men, and they often describe an act or a thing as it appears to be, rather than as it really is. The Bible speaks of "the four corners of the earth," Is. 11:12, and one of "the foundations of the earth," Ps. 104:5; yet no one understands this to mean that the earth is square, or that it actually rests upon a foundation. We speak of the sun rising and setting, yet we know that it is not the motion of the sun but that of the earth as it turns over on its axis which causes this phenomenon. Likewise, when the Scriptures speak of God repenting, for instance, no one with proper ideas of God understands it to mean that He sees He has pursued a wrong course and changes His mind. It simply means that His action as seen from the human view-point appears to be like that of a man who repents.

Loraine Boettner (1901-1990)

For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of mathematics such as anal

Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.

Paul Charles William Davies, physicist, professor at Arizona State University, affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies in Chapman University in California.

Einstein's reply to a schoolgirl's letter in 1936 which asked him, "Do scientists pray?" In the same letter Einstein also said, "Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

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Even if we did not have the New Testament or Christian writings, we would be able to conclude from such non-Christian writings as Josephus, the Talmud, Tacitus, and Pliny the Younger that: (1) Jesus was a Jewish teacher; (2) many people believed that he performed healings and exorcisms; (3) he was rejected by the Jewish leaders; (4) he was crucified under Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius; (5) despite this shameful death, his followers, who believed that he was still alive, spread beyond Palestine so that there were multitudes of them in Rome by A.D. 64; (6) all kinds of people from the cities and countryside - men and women, slave and free - worshiped him as God by the beginning of the second century.

Edwin M. Yamauchi, Professor Emeritus of History at Miami University

My son, what have I to do here any longer? The only thing for which I wished to live was your conversion, and that the Lord has now granted me in an abundant manner.

The godly mother of Aurelius Augustine following his conversion to Christ.

In a Church, organized like the primitive churches, none but baptized persons can be admitted to membership.

J. L. Dagg (1794-1884)

For those of us who are no longer in school, ... it is necessary, if we want to go on learning and discovering, to know how to make books teach us well. In that situation, if we want to go on learning, then we must know how to learn from books, which are absent teachers.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, "How To Read A Book: The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading," Simon & Schuster, page 114.

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.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

When a man thinks that others are to be blamed, and not himself, for the errors which he has committed from time to time, and the many and great evils which befell him in consequence, and is always fancying himself to be exempt an innocent, he is under the idea that he is honouring his soul; whereas the very reverse is the fact, for he is really injuring her.

Plato (428-347 BC), "Laws, Book V"

The advantageous effect of religious belief and spirituality is one of the best kept secrets in psychiatry and medicine generally.

Professor Andrew Sims, past president of the Royal Society of Psychiatrists writes in "Is Faith Delusion?" (Continuum Books, 2009), P xi.

it is also wrong to suggest that science is the only way to truth. That idea, which is widespread today, is a belief called 'scientism.' Think about it: if science were the only way to truth, you would have to get rid of half the faculties in any school or university - history, literature, languages, art and music, for a start

John C. Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College; and Associate Fellow of the Said Business School.

The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God in which he revealed to us by the language of mathematics.

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

The modern world is the product of a revolution in scientific method... Both experiment in science, and the siting of sources as evidence in history, arise from the worldview of Jerusalem, not Athens, from Jews and Christians, not the Greeks.

Edwin Judge, historian

The Holy Ghost in the sinner, or the sinner as born of the Spirit of Christ, submits to God. Any view that stops short of this is rotten as Pelagianism itself.

John Williamson Nevin (1803-1886), "The Anxious Bench (Second Edition), Antichrist, and the Sermon Catholic Unity," Wipf and Stock publishers, 2000.

If you do not fully understand the passage, it is probably because you do not know the way the author is using certain words.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, "How To Read A Book: The Classic Guide To Intelligent Reading," Simon & Schuster, page 102.

According to "100 Years of Nobel Prizes" (2005) by Baruch Aba Shalev, a review of Nobel Prizes awarded between 1901 and 2000, 65.4% of Nobel Prize Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference (423 prizes). Overall, Christians have won a total of 78.3% of all Nobel Prizes in Peace, 72.5% in Chemistry, 65.3% in Physics, 62% in Medicine, 54% in Economics and 49.5% of all Literature awards.

John C. Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College; and Associate Fellow of the Said Business School.

If the popular definition of the Kingdom of God, viz., that it is "God's reign in the heart" (thus confounding God's Sovereignty with a special Kingdom of promise) is correct, how comes it that the prophets assign it specified time and place in the future?

George N. H. Peters (1825-1909), "The Theocratic Kingdom," Proposition 116, Observation 5.

I want to suggest that the popular idea that science and God do not mix is simply not true, and that it is relatively easy to establish that.

John C. Lennox, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford; Emeritus fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College; and Associate Fellow of the Said Business School.

I was taught that shyness is not a virtue but a defect, and that it comes from placing too high a value on yourself - a value that for bids you to risk your self in the encounter with others. I think there is truth in this diagnosis.

Roger Scruton (1944-2020)

Q. What is meant by justification? Ans. It is verbum forense, a word borrowed from law-court, wherein a person arraigned in pronounced righteous, and is openly absolved. God, in justifying a person, pronounces him to be righteous, and looks upon him as if he had not sinned.

Thomas Watson (c. 1620-1686)

What were once centers of intellectual development have become retreats for the emotionally fragile.

Gad Saad, PhD, professor at Concordia University

"the gathered company of those who are called" and "we should not dream of a chosen people anywhere but in this visible gathered company."

Melanchthon, in the Loci communes of 1543, describing the church.

Porn is Satan recruiting us to degrade a woman into the opposite of who she is - from royalty to slavery.

Ray Ortland, "The Death Of Porn: Men Of Integrity Building A World Of Nobility," page 46.

If you have the habit of asking a book questions as you read, you are a better reader then if you do not.

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren