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" 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. "

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" Home is - or should be - a place for companionship, for rearing children and having friends and family over for meals while the dog begs for scraps under the table. "

Eric Metaxas

Home

Children

Dog

" Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I'll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don't think he wants to line his own pockets. "

" Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible. "

" Miracles seem to attest to the presence of a loving and compassionate God, one who wants to help us, who wants to speak to us and encourage us. "

Eric Metaxas

Miracles

God

" We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders. "

" The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something - or Someone - beyond itself. "

" As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I've published humor in the 'New York Times' and 'Atlantic,' among other places. "

" Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Miracles are supposed to point us to Him, but we can get to God without miracles. It is God himself we should long for rather than for the miracles that point to him. To get caught up in wanting miracles is a bit like thinking the destination of a road trip is the highway you're supposed to take. "

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

" 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

" It's a fact that if Hillary Clinton is elected, the country's chance to have a Supreme Court that values the Constitution - and the genuine liberty and self-government for which millions have died - is gone. Not for four years, or eight, but forever. "

" Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways. "

Eric Metaxas

Great

Nation

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Eric Metaxas

Religious

Free Enterprise

" We all can do our part to address America's anger mismanagement crisis. And for us Christians, it starts with a little more faith, hope, and love. "

Eric Metaxas

Love

Anger

" Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun. "

" We're commanded by God to worship God with our mind. "

" Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free. "

" All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection. "

Eric Metaxas

Kind

Desire

" 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. "

" Ultrasound is instrumental in the fight against abortion precisely because it allows women to make an informed choice by shedding light in a place which, for most of its history, has been shrouded in secrecy. "

" Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me. "

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

" Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever. "