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" Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship. "

Eric Metaxas

America

Freedom

" 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 the author of several books, including children's books. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Eric Metaxas

Lord

Work

" Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In some sense, there is no such thing as writing for children. "

" 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. "

" You can't fool children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Eric Metaxas

Universe

Understand

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

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

Eric Metaxas

Religious

Free Enterprise

" 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. "

" Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether. "

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

" If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong. "

" It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" For many of us, this is very painful, pulling the lever for someone many think odious. But please consider this: A vote for Donald Trump is not necessarily a vote for Donald Trump himself. It is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election. Not to vote is to vote. God will not hold us guiltless. "