Saving Truth Quotes

“We confuse disagreeing with someone's beliefs with disrespecting the person. In fact, we've confused the difference between people and ideas altogether. Where we once used to be able to challenge a person's beliefs without necessarily denigrating that person, we now think that challenging certain beliefs is the same thing as denigrating the person who holds them.”
― Abdu Murray, Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World

“The truth wasn’t hard to find. It was hard to embrace.”
― Abdu Murray, Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World

“Tolerance only operates among differences, not sameness. No one has to tolerate ideas similar to their own. In fact, to speak of tolerance in such situations is meaningless. Tolerance implies not only differences but also stress and tension because of those differences. We measure the strength of metals by assessing how they tolerate stressors like vibration, heat, and cold. So too our tolerance levels are measured by the stresses of competing religious claims. We truly tolerate each other when our competing ideas are stressors. Different religious beliefs cause us to put our own beliefs to the test. That’s true tolerance. And tolerance can lead to clarity.”
― Abdu Murray, Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World

“Indeed, the idea of what we are, and whether we have any dignity at all, is of supreme importance. Otherwise, the morass of contradictory confusion will continue to paralyze us. Through unfettered autonomy, we make ourselves into gods who are accountable to no one. And then we use our divinity to declare that we are less than human. Perhaps confusion is too mild a word to describe our culture.”
― Abdu Murray, Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World

“When we look at our world today and see all the questions being asked amid a culture not truly committed to sound answers, it’s hard to imagine a land more confusing. The confusion tends to swirl around certain questions: What does it mean to be human? What is human freedom and is it the same as autonomy? Do our rights have limits? Is there a transcendent meaning and purpose to human existence, or are we the measure of all things? We need clarity in our day to rightly answer these questions, to be informed individuals, honest scientists, and fair politicians.”
― Abdu Murray, Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World

“Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things: in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.” 12”
― Abdu Murray, Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World

“While Christianity’s abuse has brought hate’s darkness, it’s pure form has brought hope’s light.”
― Abdu Murray, Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World

“Perhaps confusion is too mild a word to describe our culture.”
― Abdu Murray, Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World

“How remarkable it is that God, knowing us, has established the boundaries of freedom that keep us from running blindly into traffic, childishly chasing after the bouncing ball of our liberty.”
― Abdu Murray, Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World

“As a Christian from a Muslim background, I find it fascinating that the culture of confusion speedily brands someone that criticizes Islam to be a racist. Islam is religion, not a race. People from many races and ethnicities embrace Islam. Calling someone a racist for criticizing Islam ignores Islam's racial and ethnic diversity. And so one could more justifiably call such a confused use of the term 'racist' to be, well racist itself.”
― Abdu Murray, Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World