Apologetic Quotes - Page 4

• To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

  C. S. Lewis

  Philosophy, Simple, Intellectual

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• Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Father, Black And White

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• ... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

  Margaret Halsey

  Two, Giving, Likes

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else.

  Susan Rice

  Mistake, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.

  James K. A. Smith

  Christian, Optimism, Appreciate

  James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.28, Baker Academic

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• There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the attacks of Islam. Today every Christian has an opportunity and obligation to present the gospel effectively and in Christian love to the Muslims who have permeated our Western society. When your neighbor, your mechanic, your favorite basketball player, your employer or employee, or even your children's friends could very well be Muslims, the need for proper understanding and an effective Christian witness is abundantly clear.

  Josh McDowell

  Basketball, Christian, Jesus

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• Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

  Leif Enger

  Bullying, Pie, Peaches

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Want, Femininity, Chosen

  "We should all be feminists". TEDxEuston, www.ted.com. December 2012.

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• Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

  John Steinbeck

  Grateful, Pride, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction”, Viking Press

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• Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

  Yoko Ono

  Race, Feelings, Body

  "Age becomes her" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2005.

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• The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ernest Nagel (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938”, p.42, SIU Press

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• In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

  J. D. Greear

  Christian, Age Love, Skeptical

  J. D. Greear (2011). “Gospel”, p.231, B&H Publishing Group

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• The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond; the white squares were the roofs of the garage, the old barn, the rabbit hutches, the chicken coops. Further back there were only the flat fields of Dawson's farm, dimly white-striped. All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall. There was no colour anywhere.

  Susan Cooper

  Fall, Dark, White

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• The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from truth. The task of apologetics is to carefully remove that hazardous material and keep it from igniting into a destructive fire. Once that is done, the way to the heart is always through the way of the Cross, God’s love for each and every one of us.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Block, Struggle, Heart

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• I told them he'd be able to get you to go out." Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into her blazer pocket. "Look at him." "He's right here, Ri," Carla murmured, shooting Keenan an apologetic look. "We've tried to teach her manners, but..." She shrugged. "It's like housebreaking a dog. If we'd had her when she was a puppy, maybe." Rianne smacked her on the arm, but she was grinning. "Woof, woof.

  Melissa Marr

  Dog, Winning, Pockets

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• People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Thinking, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (185?). “Nature: An Essay; and Orations”

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• First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Spiritual, Jobs, Successful

  "Shilpa Shetty: 'My spiritual approach to finance'". Interview with Mark Anstead, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 14, 2008.

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• Phillip looked to Eloise. "Perhaps introductions are in order?" "Oh," Eloise said, gulping. "Yes, of course. These are my brothers." "I'd gathered," he said, his voice as dry as dust. She shot him an apologetic look, which, Phillip thought, was really the least she could do after nearly getting him tortured and killed, then turned to her brothers and motioned to each in turn, saying, "Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Gregory. These three," she added, motioning to A, B, and C, "are my elders. This one"—she waved dismissively at Gregory—"is an infant.

  Julia Quinn

  Brother, Dust, Order

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• Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Sorry, Fall, Eye

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• Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Reality, Figures

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• Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Book, Non Believer

  Newfrontiers Interview, www.terryvirgo.org. September 25, 2008.

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• I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Love You, Writing, Thinking

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" by Kima Jones, therumpus.net. June 17, 2014.

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• I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.

  Lindsay Lohan

  People, Faults, Blame

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.

  Josh McDowell

  Teaching, Church, Downfall

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• I've always been a huge fan of apologetics. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors.

  Shane Harper

  Fans, My Favorite, Huge

  "Disney Channel sitcom star Shane Harper tackles big screen and big question – Is God real?". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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