19 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.
- 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- Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.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.
- 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.
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