The Case for Faith Quotes

“Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“In the meantime, prominent British pastor John R. W. Stott, who acknowledged that suffering is “the single greatest challenge to the Christian faith,” has reached his own conclusion: I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. . . . In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples in different Asian countries and stood respectfully before the statue of Buddha, his legs crossed, arms folded, eyes closed, the ghost of a smile playing round his mouth, a remote look on his face, detached from the agonies of the world. But each time after a while I have had to turn away. And in imagination I have turned instead to that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross, nails through hands and feet, back lacerated, limbs wrenched, brow bleeding from thorn-pricks, mouth dry and intolerably thirsty, plunged in God-forsaken darkness. That is the God for me! He laid aside his immunity to pain. He entered our world of flesh and blood, tears and death. He suffered for us. Our sufferings become more manageable in light of his. There is still a question mark against human suffering, but over it we boldly stamp another mark, the cross which symbolizes divine suffering. ‘The cross of Christ . . . is God’s only self-justification in such a world’ as ours.25”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“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.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“Satan greets people in hell by saying: “You’ll find that there’s no right or wrong here—just what works for you.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“Justice delayed is not necessarily justice denied. There will come a day when God will settle accounts and people will be held responsible for the evil they’ve perpetrated and the suffering they’ve caused. Criticizing God for not doing it right now is like reading half a novel and criticizing the author for not resolving the plot. God will bring accountability at the right time—in fact, the Bible says one reason he’s delaying is because some people are still following the clues and have yet to find him.15 He’s actually delaying the consummation of history out of his great love for them.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“He has demonstrated how the very worst thing that has ever happened in the history of the world ended up resulting in the very best thing that has ever happened in the history of the world.” “What do you mean? “I’m referring to dei-cide,” he replied. “The death of God himself on the cross. At the time, nobody saw how anything good could ever result from this tragedy. And yet God foresaw that the result would be the opening of heaven to human beings. So the worst tragedy in history brought about the most glorious event in history. And if it happened there—if the ultimate evil can result in the ultimate good—it can happen elsewhere, even in our own individual lives. Here, God lifts the curtain and lets us see it. Elsewhere he simply says, ‘Trust me.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“I started out as an atheist, utterly convinced that God didn’t create people but that people created God in a pathetic effort to explain the unknown and temper their overpowering fear of death. My previous book, The Case for Christ, described my nearly two-year examination of the historical evidence that pointed me toward the verdict that God really exists and that Jesus actually is his unique Son. (For”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“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.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“So I cast my lot with him—not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, ‘Before Abraham was born, I am’46  —and proved it.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“I interrupted. “Okay, that points toward a Creator, but does it tell us much about him?” “Actually, yes, it does,” Craig replied. “We know this supernatural cause must be an uncaused, changeless, timeless, and immaterial being.” “What’s the basis of your conclusions?” “It must be uncaused because we know that there cannot be an infinite regress of causes. It must be timeless and therefore changeless, at least without the universe, because it was the creator of time. In addition, because it also created space, it must transcend space and therefore be immaterial rather than physical in nature.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“I have traveled the world. I have searched high and low. I have found nothing that satisfied my mind, my heart, and the deepest longings of my soul like Jesus does. He is not only the way the truth and the life; He is personal to me. He is my way, and my truth, and my life--just as He can be for anyone who reaches out to Him.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“I believe all suffering contains at least the opportunity for good,” came his response, “but not everyone actualizes that potential. Not all of us learn and benefit from suffering; that’s where free will comes in. One prisoner in a concentration camp will react quite differently from another, because of the choice each one makes to respond to the environment.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“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?”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“moral character gets formed through hardship, through overcoming obstacles, through enduring despite difficulties. Courage, for example, would be impossible in a world without pain. The apostle Paul testified to this refining quality of suffering when he wrote that ‘suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.’13”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“As for Jesus”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“Now”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“Faith had stared Doubt squarely in the eye—and the only question was which one would blink.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“I resonated with the view of Gary Parker in his book The Gift of Doubt: “If faith never encounters doubt, if truth never struggles with error, if good never battles with evil, how can faith know its own power? . . . In my own pilgrimage, if I have to choose between a faith that has stared doubt in the eye and made it blink, or a naive faith that has never known the firing line of life, I will choose the former every time.”12”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“¡Dios mío! —dijo él con su voz llena de asombro—, no podría sostener la mano de alguien en un fuego por un momento. ¡Ni un instante! ¿Cómo podría un Dios amoroso, solo porque uno no le obedece y hace lo que quiere, torturarlo para siempre sin permitirle que se muera, sino que siga en ese dolor por la eternidad? ¡No hay criminal que haga esto!”
― Lee Strobel, El caso de la fe: Un periodista investiga las objeciones más difíciles contra el cristianismo

“Algunas personas tienen hambre de seguridad espiritual, pero algo las detiene en experimentarla. Desean probar esa clase de libertad, pero los obstáculos bloquean su paso. Las objeciones los abruman. Las dudas los ridiculizan. Sus corazones quieren volar hacia Dios, pero el intelecto les mantiene bien atados.”
― Lee Strobel, El caso de la fe: Un periodista investiga las objeciones más difíciles contra el cristianismo

“Moses could mediate on the law; Muhammad could brandish a sword; Buddha could give personal counsel; Confucius could offer wise sayings; but none of these men was qualified to offer an atonement for the sins of the world . . . Christ alone is worthy of unlimited devotion and service. THEOLOGIAN R. C. SPROUL”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“While early Islam was spread by the sword, early Christianity spread by the Spirit, even while Christians were being killed by Roman swords.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“So it’s at least possible that God is wise enough to foresee that we need some pain for reasons we may not understand but that he foresees as being necessary to some eventual good. Therefore, he’s not being evil by allowing that pain to exist.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“Does a person have to suspend their critical judgment in order to believe in something as improbable as miracles?” Craig sat upright in his chair and raised his index finger as if to punctuate his point. “Only if you believe that God does not exist!” he stressed.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will.”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“El Salmo 19:1 dice: “Los cielos cuentan la gloria de Dios, el firmamento proclama la obra de sus manos”39. A decir verdad, está escrito a través de los cielos tan vívidamente que cada vez más científicos que buscan las estrellas, se están volviendo cristianos. »El gran cosmólogo Allan Sandage, quien ganó la versión de astronomía del Premio Nobel, concluyó que Dios es “la explicación para los milagros de la existencia”40. Sir Fred Hoyle, inventor de la teoría cosmológica del estado estacionario del universo para evitar la existencia de Dios, finalmente se volvió un creyente en un Diseñador Inteligente del universo. »El astrofísico Hugh Ross, quien obtuvo su doctorado en astronomía en la Universidad de Toronto e hizo estudios en quásars y galaxias, dijo que la evidencia científica e histórica “enraizó profundamente mi confianza en la veracidad de la Biblia”41. Robert Jastrow, un reconocido agnóstico, director del observatorio del monte Wilson y fundador del Instituto del Espacio Goddard, concluyó que el Big Bang apunta hacia Dios. Y me gusta lo que el físico y matemático Robert Griffiths dijo: “Si necesitamos un ateo para un debate, voy al departamento de filosofía. El departamento de física no es de mucha utilidad” 42. Lee, la evidencia, es muy clara.”
― Lee Strobel, El caso de la fe: Un periodista investiga las objeciones más difíciles contra el cristianismo

“If every birth is a rebirth, and if every life pays for the previous life, then what were you paying for in your first birth? You”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity

“there’s a cartoon of two turtles. One says, ‘Sometimes I’d like to ask why he allows poverty, famine, and injustice when he could do something about it.’ The other turtle says, ‘I’m afraid God might ask me the same question.’ Those”
― Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity