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If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle.

~Eric Metaxas

Topics: Accept Earth Exist Infinite Margin Miracle Miracles Most Outrageous Requires Simply Then Thesis Understand Universe Us Will You

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Miracles are supposed to point us to Him, but we can get to God without miracles. It is God himself we should long for rather than for the miracles that point to him. To get caught up in wanting miracles is a bit like thinking the destination of a road trip is the highway you're supposed to take.

~Eric Metaxas

Topics: Bit Caught Destination Get God Highway Him Himself Like Long Miracles Point Rather Road Should Supposed Take Than Thinking Trip Up Us Wanting Without You

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The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.

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Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free.

~Eric Metaxas

Topics: Faith Free Freedom Religion Requires Turn Utterly Virtue You

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I'm willing to give Pat Robertson a pass when he says things he shouldn't. That's because for every wacky, regrettable thing he says, he does a hundred thousand non-wacky good things that you'll never hear about on television.

~Eric Metaxas

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Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun.

~Eric Metaxas

Topics: About Experience Feeling Fun Generally Give Humbling Less Moral Much Others Our Own Sins Superiority Thinking Us Which

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The Bible is filled with stories about angels, but many of us have had our view of angels confused by popular misconceptions about them, the principal of which is that angels do not actually exist anymore than fairies do, or wood nymphs or water sprites. But they do exist, and the Bible attests to their existence innumerable times.

~Eric Metaxas

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I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

~Eric Metaxas

Topics: Author Books Children Including Several

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I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

~Eric Metaxas

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As an undergrad, I was the editor of the Yale humor magazine, and since then, I've published humor in the 'New York Times' and 'Atlantic,' among other places.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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