Eric MetaxasBonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom. ✨ Eric Metaxas (2011). Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, p.358, Thomas Nelson Inc361DeathThoughtTime
Eric MetaxasJesus was and is the enemy of dead religion. ✨ Eric Metaxas (2012). No Pressure, Mr. President!: The Power of True Belief in a Time of Crisis, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc362DeathPoliticsTime
Eric MetaxasIt was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.379Reading
Eric MetaxasMany years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned these infamous words: First they c… ▶271Love
Eric MetaxasChristianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)349Death
Eric MetaxasThe 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped. ✨ Eric Metaxas (2011). Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, … ▶339Time
Eric MetaxasReligion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.274Politics
Eric MetaxasHe well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he calle… ▶274Thought
Eric MetaxasBelief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.296HopeLife
Eric MetaxasAtheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.275Humor
Eric MetaxasWith the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made legal. Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself. ✨ Eri… ▶277PoliticsTime
Eric MetaxasThere was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none. ✨ Eric Metaxas (2011). Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, p.252, Thomas Nelson Inc223TimeTruth
Eric Metaxas...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong t… ▶204Time
Eric MetaxasBonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as possible without attempting… ▶239TimeTruth
Eric MetaxasThe Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Free… ▶228Thought
Eric MetaxasHe did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it. ✨ Eric Metaxas (2011). Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, p.163, Thomas Nelson207HopeTime
Eric MetaxasDo not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its ca… ▶2110DeathTime
Eric MetaxasTrue faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light ✨ Eric Metaxas (2014). Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life, p.14, … ▶166HopeLifeTruth
Eric MetaxasWhen the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodo… ▶168Politics
Eric MetaxasIt's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it. ✨ Eric Metaxas (2011). Bonhoeffer: Pastor… ▶169Time
