Quotes by Josh McDowell

• Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.
• If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.
• After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
• As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
• Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.
• Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
• Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
• For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
• Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.
• I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.
• Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
• If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
• Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.
• Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.
• On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
• Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.
• Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
• The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
• The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
• Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.
• I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.