Josh McDowell Quotes

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• My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for Gods power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.

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  Joy, His Love, Problem

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Son, Christianity

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• After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history

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  Jesus, Men, Heartless

  Josh McDowell (1979). “Evidence That Demands a Verdict”, Thomas Nelson

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• Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves; it is universal because God is above all; it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original.

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  Truth Is, Absolute Truth, Constant

  Josh McDowell, Bob Hostetler (1995). “Truth Slayers”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

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  Love You, Love Is, Giving

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• It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.

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  Conflict, Resolve

  Josh McDowell, Ed Stewart (2000). “Resolving Conflict”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions, because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.

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  Jesus, Attitude, Life Changing

  Josh McDowell, Bill Wilson (1990). “The Best of Josh McDowell: A Ready Defense”, Here's Life Pub

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• No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

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  Disappointment, Struggle, Matter

  Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell (2010). “Evidence for the Resurrection: What It Means for Your Relationship with God”, p.41, Baker Books

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• I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Jesus, God Life

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Prayer, Heart

  Josh McDowell, Bill Wilson (1990). “The Best of Josh McDowell: A Ready Defense”, Here's Life Pub

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• Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of behavior, a philosophy, an ideology. But that's a myth. Christianity is not at all like Buddhism or Islam or Confucianism. The founders of those religions said (in effect), 'Here is what I teach. Believe my teachings. Follow my philosophy.' Jesus said, 'Follow me'(Matthew 9:9). Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)

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  Jesus, Philosophy, Believe

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• When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Dont go it alone - you wont make it.

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  Jesus, Healing, Cutting

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• The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord. The book of Acts records the propagation of the gospel (the good news) concerning Jesus Christ. The Epistles (letters) explain the gospel and its implications for our lives. The book of Revelation anticipates and describes the second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His eternal kingdom. From beginning to end, the Bible glorifies Jesus Christ and centers on Him. Its Christ-centeredness is one of its wonderful features.

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  Jesus, Book, Preparation

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• The Christian faith is faith in Christ. Its value or worth is not in the one believing but in the One believed - not in the one trusting, but in the One trusted.

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  Christian, Believe, Trusted

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• We may very well wake up in the not-too-distant future in a culture that is not only unreceptive but openly hostile to the church and the gospel of Jesus Christ, a culture in which those who proclaim the gospel will be labeled as bigots and fanatics, a culture in which persecution of Christians will be not only allowed but applauded.

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  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it's by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I'll turn around and say, "Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?"

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  People, Choices, Firsts

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• Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

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  Relationship, Forgiveness, Oil

  Ed Stewart, Josh McDowell (2000). “Resolving Conflict”, Thomas Nelson

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• We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.

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  Christian, Religious, Behavior

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• Most Christians are not convinced of their own faith. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God. And so they cannot discern between the truth and falsehood.

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  Christian, Views, Scripture

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)

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  Jesus, Thinking, Leader

  Josh McDowell, Bob Hostetler (2011). “Don't Check Your Brains at the Door”, p.62, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.

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  Believe, Knowing, Belief

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• My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink only as far as his lips and that was it-after forty years of drinking! He didn't need it any more. Fourteen months later, he died form complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Jesus Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.

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  Bible, Jesus, Dad

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• I always tried to be open-minded, but not so open-minded that my brains would fall out. As G. K. Chesterton says, "The purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it again on something solid." I opened my mind, and I finally closed it on the most solid reality I had ever experienced. On December 19, 1959, at 8:30PM, during my second year at the university, I became a Christian.

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  Christian, Fall, Reality

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• Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation.

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  Knowing, Worry, Faithful

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• One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

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  Jesus, Men, Moral

  Josh McDowell (1977). “More Than a Carpenter”, Tyndale House Pub

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