Love Your God with All Your Mind Quotes

“Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“But their overall effect was to overemphasize immediate personal conversion to Christ instead of a studied period of reflection and conviction; emotional, simple, popular preaching instead of intellectually careful and doctrinally precise sermons; and personal feelings and relationship to Christ instead of a deep grasp of the nature of Christian teaching and ideas.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a surrogate for a Higher Power.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“Propositional knowledge is justified true belief; it is believing something that is true on the basis of adequate grounds.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“I fear that our inaccurate emphasis on the Holy Spirit’s role in understanding Scripture has become an easy shortcut to the hard work of building a personal library of study tools and using them.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“As Puritan Cotton Mather proclaimed, “Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion but of HERESY.”4”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“Today, people are inclined to think that the sincerity and fervency of one's beliefs are more important than the content. As long as we believe something honestly and strongly, we are told, then that is all that really matters. Reality is basically indifferent to how sincerely we believe something.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“God is not honored when his people use bad arguments for what may actually be correct conclusions.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“As G. K. Chesterton bemoaned, once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything. This”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“If reason plays no practical role in such religious decisions as choosing a denomination or becoming a Christian in the first place, why should we expect it to inform subsequent decisions within the religious life?”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“Might — it is wrongly believed — makes right.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“The way we reach decisions today, the manner in which we dialogue about issues, and the political correctness we see all around us are dehumanizing expressions of the anti-intellectualism in modern society when it comes to broad worldview issues. Rhetoric without reason, persuasion without argument are manipulation”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“The more you know about something, the more you’re able to see when you look at it, the more you can remember about it, and the less tied you will be to following a mindless series of steps in working with what you know.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“I’d want to say so many things. But my main exhortation would be this: Don’t neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvelous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“Knowledge by acquaintance gives us direct access to reality as it is in itself, and we actually know this to be the case in our daily lives.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“Influence is one thing; determination is another.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“The important thing to note is that we humans have the power to “see,” to be directly aware of, to directly experience a wide range of things, many of which are not subject to sensory awareness with the five senses.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“Experience is more basic than ultimate worldview presuppositions and, in fact, the evidence of experience provides data for evaluating rival worldviews or interpretations of some event.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“3. Know-how.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“2. Propositional knowledge.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“Knowledge by acquaintance is sometimes called “simple seeing,” being directly aware of something.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“1. Knowledge by acquaintance.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“Here’s a simple definition of knowledge: It is to represent reality in thought or experience the way it really is on the basis of adequate grounds.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“For our purposes, two things are important about the narrative. First, Jesus revealed His intellectual skills in debate by: (1) showing His familiarity with His opponents’ point of view; (2) appealing to common ground (a text all the disputants accepted) instead of expressing a biblical text He accepted but they rejected (Daniel 12:2); and (3) deftly using the laws of logic to dissect His opponents’ argument and refute it powerfully. Second, because it forms the immediately preceding context for Matthew 22:37-39, this incident may inform at least part of what it means to love God intellectually: to be prepared to stand up for God’s truth and honor when they are challenged and to do so with carefully thought-out answers.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“we cannot “prove,” that is, “make known to ourselves and to others,” what God’s will is without the renewing or transformation of our minds.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“We need local churches dedicated to the task of training believers to think theologically and biblically.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“In my view, the Spirit does not help the believer understand the meaning of Scripture. Rather, He speaks to the believer’s soul, convicting, comforting, opening up applications of His truth through His promptings.”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“The Lord’s Word is not only practically useful, it is also theoretically true (John 17:17).”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul

“The God of the Bible requires teachers who diligently study His Word and handle it accurately (compare 2 Timothy 2:15 and 1 Timothy 4:15-16).”
― J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul