Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World

by Timothy J. Keller

Terrible deeds have been done in the name of religion, but secularism has not proven to be an improvement.

But the problem with this whole conception became evident to him. If everything has to have a scientific explanation and proof, then this “is to banish not only God from the world but also love, hate, meaning— . . . world that is self-evidently not the world we live in.”

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

Empirical reason can prove neither the claim that there is a supernatural, transcendent reality nor the claim that there is none.

Christians do not say to themselves: “Stop thinking out the implications of what you believe about the universe. Just try to enjoy the day.” No, if a Christian is feeling downcast and meaningless, it is because, in a sense, she is not being rational enough. She is not thinking enough about the implications of what she believes about the universe.