Unbelievable? Quotes

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert I”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“Every day, in a thousand ways, people choose to live within a certain story of reality, be it atheism, Christianity or something else. Some do it without ever asking whether their story is true, even though they base their entire lives upon it.”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“else.’7 What we believe about the world and how we interact with it will very much depend on the worldview that we adopt. When I put my contact lenses in my eyes every morning, suddenly the blurry outlines of my house become clear and distinct. If I then put on a pair of sunglasses as I step outside into bright sunlight, my view of the world will change again. Inhabiting a Christian, atheist or other religious worldview is somewhat like putting on a pair of glasses that changes our focus. The worldview different people adopt might just as easily be an unexamined Western consumerism or strongly held political ideology. Whatever our worldview may be, none of us have unimpeded 20/20 vision when it comes to the true picture of reality. Our assumptions, beliefs and values act as a filter through which we interpret and engage the world around us. In the Christian worldview, intellectual arguments and evidence may help us to establish the fact that God exists and has been revealed in Jesus Christ. But the real task of faith is coming to see the whole world through Christ-focused spectacles.”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“If we can show that none of those objections need constitute an insurmountable obstacle, then the road may be clear enough for the person to walk towards faith in Christ. But here’s the catch. They still have to be willing to walk down that road. No argument will force them to do that.”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“would rather have Christians with imperfect theology who go and love people in the name of Christ, than believers with perfect theology whose faith is hermetically sealed from actually making a difference. In”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“I believe that God is masterful enough to be able to weave many of the experiences and tribulations of our life into a tapestry that is ultimately beautiful to behold. Yet, in the present, we often only see the tangled mess of threads on the underside of the tapestry.”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.’5”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“Or to use another metaphor: you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. Our arguments may lead someone to the water’s edge, but they have to be thirsty in order to want to drink what’s on offer.”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“In the end, nobody gets argued into the kingdom of God.”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“Yet people can’t entrust their lives to an argument, however well made. Faith involves more than that. If our arguments are worth making, it is because they open the door to trusting in a person – Jesus Christ – and then living our life in the light of that reality.”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

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― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“believe that the truth of the Christian faith is most fully confirmed when you put it into practice, step inside the church and see it from the inside.”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“In the end, faith is not merely about belief; it’s about learning to trust the God we cannot see to make sense of the world we can.”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

“So we too must ask ourselves whether the common human longing for purpose and our experience of the transcendent can be fully explained by the unguided forces of physics and evolution which naturalistic atheism tells us is all that really exists.”
― Justin Brierley, Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian