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" We all have different strengths, different gifts. "
Eric Metaxas
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" 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
" 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
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" 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
" I guess I'm concerned that vulgarity has now officially entered the mainstream of our culture, and I think people have to respectfully stand up and say, 'No thanks.' "
Eric Metaxas
People
Think
Stand Up
" Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible. "
Eric Metaxas
Did
Bible
Because
" 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
" 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
" There's already a world of evidence that life on Earth is unique and intelligently crafted. "
Eric Metaxas
World
Unique
Evidence
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Road
Long
Destination
" I'm willing to give Pat Robertson a pass when he says things he shouldn't. That's because for every wacky, regrettable thing he says, he does a hundred thousand non-wacky good things that you'll never hear about on television. "
Eric Metaxas
Hear
You
Good Things
" You can't fool children. "
Eric Metaxas
Children
Fool
You
" Everyone needs to stop and breathe and look at how redefining marriage will have a hugely chilling effect on religious liberty in America. "
Eric Metaxas
Marriage
Look
Stop
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Abortion
Women
Light
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Think
Results
God
" Being an American is something we need to learn and understand. "
Eric Metaxas
Need
American
Being
" 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
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Beyond
Miracles
God
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
God
People
Problem
" Language is powerful. Words matter. "
Eric Metaxas
Powerful
Language
Matter
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Humor
New
New York
" 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
" 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
Practice
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Learn
Here
Wrong
" Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether. "
Eric Metaxas
Want
Many
Culture
" 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. "
Eric Metaxas
Man
Great
America
" People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself! "
Eric Metaxas
People
Good
God
" 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
Us
" Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.' "
Eric Metaxas
Healing
Deserve
Forgiveness
" God designed humans to live in community. "
Eric Metaxas
Live
Community
God
" Every country has things to be proud of and to celebrate. "
Eric Metaxas
Country
Celebrate
Things