“If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.” IfsMenWorldRealSoulHardStoriesShowsSeemsUniverseRaceAtheismTheoryTypeDramaEssentialsEternalBelieverDialogueGentlemanComparisonImmortalSecularUnfoldingPuppetsTrivialityImmortal SoulPuppet Shows Author:Joseph McCabe
“I Must warn you, Iris, that I'm not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them, individually, I shouldn't for one second be so presumptuous as to make a choice among the many thousands of recorded revelations of truth, accepting one at the expense of all the others: I might so easily choose wrong and get into eternal trouble. And you must admit that the selection is wide, and dangerous to the amateur.” MenMightChoicesAcceptingTroubleAtheismDangerousSourceEternalInfiniteSatisfactionPositive AtheismWideBelieverRevelationsExpensesSelectionPresumptuousIrises Author:Gore Vidal
“You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes.” PeoplePersonsHumorChristianSoundBornReligiousBehindsCarEternalClothesLeavingCaughtDisappearBelieverDriversRidingCrashEternal LifeAutomobileTrumpetsBorn AgainPhysical Things Author:Jerry Falwell
“All my life I've heard people say, 'God loves you.' It's probably the most insane statement you could make to say that the eternal Creator of this universe is in love with me. There is a response that ought to take place in believers, a crazy reaction to that love. Do you really understand what God has done for you? If so, why is response so lukewarm?” PeopleIfsDoneUniverseHeardCrazyLove YouOughtEternalResponseCreatorBelieverReactionsStatementsInsaneGod LoveLukewarmGod Loves You Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.” FirstsIdeasRealValuesCultureFatherExistenceMoralModernBecomingEternalUltimateAbsolutesMethodFundamentalsCurrentsBelieverRejectsCreedsLinkedPremisesScientific MethodRelativismAbsolutismModern CultureMoral RelativismGod Is Real Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.” JesusChristChristianitySacrificeEternalJesus ChristBelieverRedemption Author:Jonathan Edwards
“When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.” IfsStoriesTurnsFallLosesMillionsHellHeardEternalDiedSalvationHearingMissionsBelieverShipsFlamesIslandsMissionarySavagesCaptainsCannibalMissions In LifeGreat MissionaryInspirational MissionaryFijiMissionary Life Author:K.P. Yohannan
“The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.” PeopleYearsStoriesWaitingLordModernPromiseEternalPatienceRewardsSaintDecadesBelieverScriptureBiblicalAbraham Author:Charles Stanley
“What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.” IfsWorldWayMayMeanFeelingsHandsEvilBeliefWishSinResponsibilityMoralWorryIssuesComfortEternalTreatsAbsolutesBelieverSavingOutcomesHolidayFiniteWagsAnon Author:William James
“That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.” ShouldPurposeSufferingPowerfulOur LivesPlansEternalGloryBelieverLoving GodUnbelievers Book:Trusting God Source: Trusting God
“What is there to be said about a Church which certainly promises its believers eternal salvation, but at the same time condemns the non-believers, all those who think differently, to an eternal torment in hell? - If that Church absolutely must talk about love, then it should do so very quietly.” IfsThinkingShouldSaidChurchHellPromiseEternalSalvationAtheistBelieverTormentNon Believer Author:Arnulf Øverland
“The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.” MenPastPurposeCausesBornEternalSpringElectionBelieverChosenInternalsAdamSovereignEverlastingJacobForeseenPurpose Of GodFuture Happiness Author:Thomas Brooks
“A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.” StoriesFallChristianityMillionsHellHeardGroupsEternalSalvationHearingMissionsBelieverTinyFlamesMissionaryMissions In LifeGreat MissionaryChristian MissionaryInspirational MissionaryMissionary Life Author:K.P. Yohannan