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" I came to the conclusion over time that Trump is not the person I feared he was in the beginning when I was against him. "
Eric Metaxas
Over
Him
He
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" The Bible is filled with stories about angels, but many of us have had our view of angels confused by popular misconceptions about them, the principal of which is that angels do not actually exist anymore than fairies do, or wood nymphs or water sprites. But they do exist, and the Bible attests to their existence innumerable times. "
Eric Metaxas
View
Angels
Water
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
God
Good
Know
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Best
Own
Time
" 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? "
Eric Metaxas
Faith
Perfect
Intelligence
" In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children. "
Eric Metaxas
Writing
Children
Sense
" No one knows what the future holds, except the One Who holds the future! "
Eric Metaxas
Who
Knows
Future
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Help
Culture
Good
" 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.' "
Eric Metaxas
Mean
Just Because
Great
" I think that there are deceptive forces out there that will try to lead us away from God, and we really do need to be careful. "
Eric Metaxas
Try
Be Careful
Think
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Parks
America
Boast
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Place
Think
God
" Quite simply, our isolation from nature has become isolation from God's Word. Cocooned in our manmade world of climate-controlled homes, cars, subways, and high-rises, we're finding it easier to live as practical atheists. "
Eric Metaxas
Nature
World
Word
" The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing. Yet here we are, not only existing, but talking about existing. What can account for it? Can every one of those many parameters have been perfect by accident? At what point is it fair to admit that science suggests that we cannot be the result of random forces? "
Eric Metaxas
Universe
Life
Perfect
" You and I must demonstrate love to our gay neighbors, of course, remembering that we are ultimately engaged in spiritual warfare. But we should boldly stand up when our rights as citizens and the demands of our conscience are threatened. "
Eric Metaxas
Gay
Spiritual
Stand
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Live
Life
World
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Upset
You
Who
" As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God's ability to provide for or protect us. "
Eric Metaxas
Faith
Anger
Ability
" There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy. "
Eric Metaxas
Science
Time
Politics
" Christians recognize that our planet was uniquely designed and fine-tuned to support life - and that's putting it mildly. Our place in the universe is nothing less than a miracle. "
Eric Metaxas
Place
Life
Support
" Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied. "
Eric Metaxas
Mistakes
Nation
Focus
" Men and women are complements to each other, physically and otherwise. "
Eric Metaxas
Other
Men
Each
" Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever. "
Eric Metaxas
Creation
Live
Good
" If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea. "
Eric Metaxas
Blood
Say
Beautiful
" Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me. "
Eric Metaxas
Jews
Faith
Because
" No politician has ever used his faith to a greater result for all of humanity, and that is why, in his day, Wilberforce was a moral hero far more than a political one. "
Eric Metaxas
Faith
Political
Hero
" We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders. "
Eric Metaxas
Outside
Caring
Always
" 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.' "
Eric Metaxas
Tomorrow
Women
God
" If God miraculously created all that is, including you and me, then to say that we need miracles is an understatement. Our only response to that idea should be undying gratitude. "
Eric Metaxas
Me
Gratitude
Need
" Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.' "
Eric Metaxas
Healing
Deserve
Forgiveness
" Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible. "
Eric Metaxas
Did
Bible
Because