We had a lot of people interested in the quotes Halim mentioned in his sermon on Sunday, so here is a compilation:
"They tell us that it is heresy to suggest the superiority of some value, fantasy to believe in moral argument, slavery to submit to a judgment sounder than your own. The freedom of our day is the freedom to devote ourselves to any values we please, on the mere condition that we do not believe them to be true."-As quoted in, Finding God at Harvard
"In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die." -Dorothy Sayers
"You account for the facts: 100s of orthodox Jews who were the last people on the planet to believe in the risen son of God did... it couldn't have been wishful thinking... you account for the fact that sometimes people saw him hundreds at a time and so it couldn't have been a hallucination - people don't hallucinate in groups. And you account for the fact that those people lived the rest of their lives and died for their belief in the resurrection and so it couldn't have been a hoax" -Tim Keller
"I believe in Jesus because He fulfills none of my dreams because He's in every respect the opposite of what He would be if I could've made Him in my own image". W.H. Auden
"The gospel opposes both moralism and relativism. On the one hand, "moralism" stresses truth over grace, for it says that we must obey the truth in order to be saved. On the other hand, "relativism" stresses grace over truth, for it says that we are all accepted by God (if there is a God) and that "truth" is something we decide for ourselves. But "truth" without grace is not really truth, and "grace" without truth is not really grace. Jesus was "full of grace and truth"."-Tim Keller
