Quotes by Lee Strobel
Lee Strobel (b. 1952) — Journalist, christlicher Autor und Apologet · Evangelikal / Protestantisch · USA
Der US-amerikanische Journalist und evangelikale Publizist Lee Strobel (* 1952) war Gerichtsberichterstatter bei der Chicago Tribune, bevor er nach seiner Hinwendung zum Christentum als Pastor und Autor tätig wurde. Er steht für eine populäre, im Interviewformat verfasste Glaubensverteidigung und erlangte vor allem durch seinen Bestseller „Der Fall Jesus“ internationale Bekanntheit. Für Bibelleser bietet sein Werk leicht verständliche Argumente für die Zuverlässigkeit der Evangelien, wobei Kritiker aus Wissenschaft und säkularem Umfeld bemängeln, dass seine Darstellungen Gegenpositionen vernachlässigen und einseitig konservative Gelehrte heranziehen.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Doubt & Hard Questions, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption, Faith & Trust, Guilt & Forgiveness, Freedom & Truth, Suffering & the Question of God, Meaning & Identity
Quotes by Lee Strobel
Jesus Christ did not come into this world to make bad people good; He came into this world to make dead people live.
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If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.
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These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.
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God is the God of do-overs, and that should give us great hope. We really can be absolved of our past.
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As C. S. Lewis famously said, ‘God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: [evil] is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.
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All we needed when we first came to Jesus was his grace, and grace is all we need to grow in Christ. Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.
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God didn’t let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity’s supreme happiness. Job’s suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.
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Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose? Sir John Templeton.
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Mother Teresa used the analogy of electricity: “The wire is you and me; the current is God,” she said. “We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, and produce the light of the world—Jesus.
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So do whatever it takes to keep the wonder of God’s grace fresh in your heart.
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Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.
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Just as certain people are more susceptible to particular diseases, some temperaments —especially those that tend to be melancholy or contemplative — are more vulnerable to questions and doubts.
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If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.
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Science and faith are not at war. When scientific evidence and biblical teaching are correctly interpreted, they can and do support each other. I’d say to anyone who doubts that: investigate the evidence yourself.
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Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ.
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Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ says C. S. Lewis.
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Yes, in Christianity, the gap that our sin creates between us and God is simply insurmountable. Trying to cross it is like jumping off the Newport Beach pier and trying to leap to Hawaii,” he said, gesturing in the general direction of the Pacific Ocean.
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So along comes Jesus and says to sinners, ‘I forgive you.’ The Jews immediately recognize the blasphemy of this. They react by saying, ‘Who can forgive sins but God alone?’ To my mind, that is one of the most striking things Jesus did.
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Anchoring our hope to Christ means we live with a confident expectation that he will therefore fulfill his promises to us.
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The point of our lives in this world isn’t comfort, but training and preparation for eternity. Scripture tells us that even Jesus ‘learned obedience through suffering14—and if that was true for him, why wouldn’t it be even more true for us?
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We need to admit that we can't get through even the challenges of today--much less the problems that lie ahead--without some outside intervention.
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Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.
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The source of evil is not God’s power but mankind’s freedom.
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Jesus, the ultimate sacrificial lamb of God, who paid for sin once and for all. Here was the personification of God’s plan of redemption.
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Denying the existence of Jesus doesn’t make him go away.
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I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know who holds my future.
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If I had stopped asking questions, that’s where I would have remained.
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It’s hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you’ve failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.
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Paul himself says that he was converted to a follower of Jesus because he had personally encountered the resurrected Jesus.12 So we have Jesus’ resurrection attested by friend and foe alike, which is very significant.
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We can’t treat the Bible with kid gloves. We really need to wrestle with the issues, because our faith depends on it.
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While early Islam was spread by the sword, early Christianity spread by the Spirit, even while Christians were being killed by Roman swords.
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Only by facing my sin could God use it to change me for the better. The Bible warns that God’s discipline isn’t pleasant, but in the end the changes God produces in our character are worth it.
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Is Christ being offensive when he says that he is the only way to God? Judging by the number of people who are offended, you’d better believe it! Is Christ being exclusive? That’s a different question.
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Might we be more than just our brains? Should we question the Darwinian dogma that the soul is a figment of our imagination? Or is it possible that ancient teachings are true: humans are both body and spirit?
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The Jews proposed the ridiculous story that the guards had fallen asleep. Obviously, they were grasping at straws. But the point is this: they started with the assumption that the tomb was vacant! Why? Because they knew it was!
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Satan greets people in hell by saying: “You’ll find that there’s no right or wrong here—just what works for you.
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Wishful thinking doesn’t change reality.
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It’s becoming clearer and clearer to me that this is materialistic philosophy masquerading as empirical science. The attitude is that life had to have developed this way because there’s no other materialistic explanation.
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Craig summarized his next point succinctly at the outset: “A third factor pointing toward God is the existence of objective moral values in the universe. If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist.
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Sources: wikipedia.org, leestrobel.com, compelledpodcast.com, infidels.org
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