Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World

by Timothy J. Keller

Sometimes one experiences a fullness in which the world suddenly seems charged with meaning, coherence, and beauty that break in through our ordinary sense of being in the world.

People believe in God not merely because they feel some emotional need, but because it makes sense of what they see and experience.

We should have as many good reasons for what we believe as possible.

The Christian believer is using reason and faith to get to her beliefs just as her secular neighbor is using reason and faith to get to hers. They are both looking at the same realities in nature and human life, and both are seeking a way to make the best sense of them through a process that is rational, personal, intuitive, and social. Reason does not and cannot operate alone.