Best Apologetic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Apologizing is different from begging, it doesn't change your status, go ahead and get on your knees, spill tears if you got it, for the person you offended, if at all you had a place in their hearts, you'll be totally forgiven and accepted.”

“You cannot say that the Bible is outdated because this book talks about things to come and eternity.”

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Author:Brother Pedro

“Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.”

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Author:Lee Strobel

“Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion.”

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Author:Donald M. MacKinnon

“The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.”

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Author:Edward John Carnell

“I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.”

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Author:August Tholuck

“I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.”

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Author:Nigella Lawson

“... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.”

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Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.”

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Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.”

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Author:Dan Harmon

“My mission is not to give an apologetic for why I'm trying to impact people's lives and use the Gospel to transform. My mission is to impact people's lives and use the Gospel to transform. I want to be on that mission and not explaining it all the time.”

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Author:LeCrae

“I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for crème de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey.”

Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

“To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.”

“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.”

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Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“I've always been a huge fan of apologetics. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors.”

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Author:Shane Harper

“Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.”

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Author:Timothy Keller

“I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.”

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Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.”

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Author:Lindsay Lohan

“The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.”

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Book:How Now Shall We Live?

Source: How Now Shall We Live?

“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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Author:William Lane Craig

“Worship is a powerful witness to unbelievers-if God's presence is felt, and if the message is understandable. God's presence must be sensed in the service. More people are won to Christ by feeling God's presence than by all our apologetic arguments combined. Few people, if any, are converted to Christ on purely intellectual grounds. It is the sense of God's presence that melts the heart and explodes mental barriers.”

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Author:Rick Warren

“We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live.”

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Author:Philip Yancey

“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.”

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Author:Fred Hoyle

“I wasn't writing, I wasn't drawing, and personality-wise, I was just completely arrogant. I'm not trying to be overly apologetic for my behavior - I wasn't evil. The lifestyle I had was one that lent itself to becoming more and more self-involved.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“Compared to Americans, Canadians are often more gentle in their approach to things. They're much more apologetic. There's less room for conflict.”

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Author:Joseph Boyden

“I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.”

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Author:Max Lucado

“Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of Mary, prayer books, Scriptural resource books on Apologetics, Typology, concordances, bible dictionaries, bible encyclopedias and at least 40 bibles - both Catholic and Protestant editions in several different translations.”

“I've got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on a plane, for example. I haven't got any of that kind of confidence in those situations. I look so awkward. I act awkward. I'm really apologetic. I fail to get anything that way.”

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Author:Ruth Wilson

“The moment you're too apologetic about something and people know that something isn't finished, they listen/look for the mistakes or cracks, but if you act like it's done people experience things in a totally different way.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else.”

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Author:Susan Rice

“The difference between apologetics and evangelism is that in apologetics, you are answering objections that the world raises, whereas in evangelism, you are bringing the message that Christ brought. So unbelievers tend to set the agenda in apologetics, and you set the agenda in evangelism.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“I love people thinking about apologetics. I just think that we have to be careful. We need to realize that we can argue about evolution or the existence of God or any number of things, but until we tell people the message of the cross, we have not evangelized them.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“It's fine to deal with people's doubts and explain why they have good reasons to believe in Christ. But until we tell them the good news of Jesus Christ, we haven't done our job. They need a saviour that God has provided them in Christ. Once they know that, we can do as much apologetics as we need to.”

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Author:Mark Dever

“In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses, annunciations, and so on. Epistles can be apologetic, commendatory, friendship-oriented, exhortational, diatribes.”

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Author:Craig Blomberg

“If I was a part of secret ninja group my power would be the power of apology. I would just apologize emphatically and freely. And my mech might just be a phone to send apologetic emails from.”

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Author:Zach Woods

“Some politicians are scared of Putin and some are extremely apologetic, actually. And I feel very sorry for this because some people who are like my friends from the left flank, they praise Putin because they see him as the fighter against American imperialism, which he is not. You know, why would you select between American imperialism and Russian imperialism? To my mind, it's exactly the same thing.”

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Author:Ilya Ponomarev

“Archaeology in general is the recovery and study of the material culture of past civilizations. Biblical archaeology is as an application of the science of archaeology to the field of biblical studies. Through the comparison and integration of Scripture with the evidence of history and culture derived from archaeology, new insights into the biblical context of people and events, and sometimes the interpretation of the text itself, are possible. In this way archaeology serves as a necessary tool for biblical exegesis and for apologetic concerns.”

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Author:Randall Price

“Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying, 'To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,' his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic.”

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Author:Charles Krauthammer

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.”

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Author:Yoko Ono

“I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.”

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Author:Luke Scott

“The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.”

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Author:Sargent Shriver

“I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.”

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Book:America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.”

Source: Joyful Christian

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