Quotes by Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915–1995) — Apologet und Naturwissenschaftler · Evangelikal · Schweiz

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith (1915–1995) war ein britischer Chemiker, Pharmakologe und evangelikaler Apologet, der nach internationalen Lehraufträgen viele Jahre in der Schweiz lebte und publizierte. Er vertrat einen kreationistischen Ansatz und argumentierte mit biochemischen sowie informationstheoretischen Modellen gegen die Evolutionstheorie, was in der naturwissenschaftlichen Fachwelt auf breite Ablehnung stieß. Für Bibelleser veranschaulicht sein Werk den Versuch konservativ-evangelikaler Apologetik, naturwissenschaftliche Argumente mit einem wörtlichen Verständnis der biblischen Schöpfungsberichte zu verbinden.

Era: The 20th Century

Recurring topics: Ethical Questions, Relationships & Family, Guilt & Forgiveness, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Wisdom & Understanding, Grace & Redemption, Suffering & the Question of God, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit

Quotes by Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Life often needs the deepest distress and mortal danger, it often needs a very deep well, before we truly see the stars—the heavenly truths! That is often the purpose of deep wells and other afflictions: the deeper the well, the brighter God's stars shine in the sky!

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Paradise reigns where people live who have experienced forgiveness and whose guilt has been wiped away.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

A civilization unwilling to carry and care for its elderly, its sick, and its babies is already on the road to rapid degeneration.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Especially when I have to walk through deep waters, I look to the facts of divine guidance and help that I have experienced in my own life in the past.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

We can leave our sorrows and griefs behind at death. But the wealth of love belongs to us for eternity.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

When I come across a Bible passage I don't understand, I think about it and pray over it. There's much in the Bible I don't understand, but the principles are laid down there, and I hold to those principles.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

After God equipped us with the most complex thinking apparatus the world knows, he expects us to use it to come to know and love the great mystery of all life and being — namely, himself.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Forgiving is practical Christianity.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Private property is borrowed possession of God, managed on his behalf.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Living together in marriage is certainly an art, and also a high science.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

The great problem of relationships between people, inside and outside marriage, remains the problem of forgiving guilt.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

The death and resurrection of Christ are cornerstones of redemption, giving us eternal life.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Two people can never really harmonize if they don't fit together three-dimensionally in body, soul and spirit.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

The body should be the servant of the soul, never its master.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

As one thinks, and as one is forced to think, so one becomes in character.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Love that cannot wait is not real love.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Love seeks love in return. Love grows - or dies!

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Patience in suffering and obedience to God's will amid all fear are God's way with his own Son — and also for his redeemed, when they are ready for it.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

If we come to know heights of joy, then we will not be spared the depths of suffering either.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Power very easily becomes power-hungry.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

The purely physical, hormonal, instinctive side of human sex is additionally subordinate to intellectual and also spiritual factors.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

If a person conceives children solely from bodily desire, something essential is missing from that act.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

History teaches us that the collapse of a civilization comes quickly once its sexual morality has shattered.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

What one saves, one can give to others.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Reason can hold one back from an unreasonable love.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

To be intelligent in the matter of choosing a spouse, one would need to profit from the experience of others who have already gone this way.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Sin itself can be forgiven, but its permanent consequences do not fail to follow.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Contemplating nature should lead a person to worship and make him a convinced and grateful believer.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Violence cannot bring back lost love.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

The cross of Christ was foreseen in eternity.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

The Christian owes his redemption to the free gift of God. But the degree of his exaltation will depend on his knowledge of the greatness of Christ and on his sharing in the inner process of becoming.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

It is precisely sins in the realm of sexuality that have destroyed past civilizations and cultures, just as they are now in the process of killing our own.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

The unborn baby is far less protected in the modern state than a guinea pig.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Abortion always means the killing of the child.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Irresponsibly bringing children into the world is one of the diseases the undisciplined modern world suffers from most.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Sex, love and marriage are institutions of God, intended for our space-time continuum and not for other dimensions or eternity.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

God's wooing will one day come to an end.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

A single glance at the universe should be enough for any person of average intelligence to become convinced of the existence of God.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

If you put various pieces of metal in a barrel and shake it for a million years, the probability of a wristwatch coming out of it is zero. And if we made it billions of years, would we have a greater chance? And a single cell is far more complex than a wristwatch.

Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith

Sources: alchetron.com, wikipedia.org

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