"Life is lived forward and understood backwards."
"The opposite of love is not hate - it is indifference."
"Being a Christian is not about being perfect but being faithful."
"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest!"
- Corrieten Boom, at at Nazi death camp
"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, then walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelieveable."
- Brennan Manning (quoted by DC Talk)
"It has been the cross which has revealed to good men that their goodness has not been good enough."
- Johann Heironymus Schroeder
"Each of the disciples faced the test of torture and martyrdom for his statements and beliefs. People will die for what they believe to be true, though it may actually be false. They do not, however, die for what they know is a lie."
- Paul Little (on how we know the disciples did not steal Jesus' body from the tomb)
"Muslims might be willing to die for their belief that Allah revealed himself to Muhammad, but this revelation was not done in a publicly observable way. So they could be wrong about it. They may sincerely think it's true, but they can't know for a fact, because they didn't witness it themselves. However, the apostles were willing to die for something they had seen with their own eyes and touched with their own hands."
- J.P. Morgan, in The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel