Mere Apologetics Quotes

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
― Alister McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith

“The human quest for beauty is thus really a quest for the source of that beauty, which is mediated through the things of this world, not contained within them.”
― Alister McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith

“For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.”
― Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How To Help Seekers And Skeptics Find Faith

“Faith reaches out to where reason points and does not limit itself to where reason stops.”
― Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How To Help Seekers And Skeptics Find Faith

“Apologetics is about persuading people that there is a door to another world—a door that perhaps they never realized existed. Evangelism is about helping people to open that door and enter into the new world that lies beyond.”
― Alister McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith

“God’s existence may not be proved, in the hard rationalist sense of the word. Yet it can be affirmed with complete sincerity that belief in God is eminently reasonable and makes more sense of what we see in the world, discern in history, and experience in our lives than its alternatives.”
― Alister McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith

“Apologetics aims to convert believers into thinkers, and thinkers into believers.”
― Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith

“Human logic may be rationally adequate, but it is also existentially deficient. Faith declares that there is more than this - not contradicting, but transcending reason.”
― Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How To Help Seekers And Skeptics Find Faith

“One of the great themes of the Christian Bible is that, whenever God asks us to do something for him, he gives us the gifts we need to do it. Knowing us for what we are, he equips us for what he wants us to do.”
― Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How To Help Seekers And Skeptics Find Faith

“Apologetics is both a science and an art. It is not just about knowledge; it is about wisdom. It’s like a skilled and experienced medical practitioner, who knows the theory of medicine well. But she has to apply it to her patients, and that means learning how to relate to them—how to help them tell her what the real problems are, finding ways of communicating technical medical terms in ordinary language, and explaining how they can be addressed.”
― Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith