Handbook of Christian Apologetics Quotes

“Most of us know that our heart is our center, not our head. But apologetics gets at the heart through the head. The head is important precisely because it is a gate to the heart. We can love only what we know.”
― Ronald Tacelli, Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions

“USTON SMITH NOTES, IN THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS, THAT ONLY TWO PEOPLE ever astounded their contemporaries so much that the question they evoked was not "Who is he?" but "What is he?" They were Jesus and Buddha. The answers”
― Peter Kreeft, Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions

“The universe is the sum total of all these moving things, however many there are. The whole universe is in the process of change. But we have already seen that change in any being requires an outside force to actualize it. Therefore, there is some force outside (in addition to) the universe, some real being transcendent to the universe. This is one of the things meant by "God.”
― Peter Kreeft, Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions

“each one needs something outside itself to actualize its potentiality for change.”
― Peter Kreeft, Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions

“As for the thing that changes, although it can be what it will become, it is not yet what it will become. It actually exists right now in this state (an acorn); it will actually exist in that state (large oak tree). But it is not actually in that state now. It only has the potentiality for that state.”
― Peter Kreeft, Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions

“The changing thing begins with only the potential to change, but it needs to be acted on by other things outside if that potential is to be made actual. Otherwise it cannot change.”
― Peter Kreeft, Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions

“The result of change cannot actually exist before the change.”
― Peter Kreeft, Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions

“We must distinguish the act of faith from the object of faith, believing from what is believed.”
― Peter Kreeft, Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions