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Eric Metaxas (born 1963) is an American author, speaker, and radio host. He is known for three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce and Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer . "Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World" about Martin Luther . He has also written humor, children's books, and scripts for VeggieTales. Metaxas is the founder and host of the NYC-based event series, "Socrates in the City: Conversations on the Examined Life" and the host of the nationally syndicated radio program, The Eric Metaxas Show

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The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

Church, Speak, Thing, Ties

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Existence, Faith, God, Inspirational, Life, Result

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.

Christian, Church, Culture, Folklore, Venture

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

Dead, Enemy, Jesus, Religion

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

Reality, Christ, Lord

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

Fragile, Freedoms, Power, Religion, Threatening

When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. They’ve substituted a toothless ‘freedom of worship’ for ‘freedom of religion’.

Cynical, Day, Government, Leave, Lying, State

The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seemed to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them.

Accomplishment, Children, Generations, Shoulders, Tree, Wonderfulness

If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history.

Facts, God, History, Ifs, Reality, Science

They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

Answers, Concerned, Know, Supposed, Theological, Wrong

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

Bees, Fleas, Remarked, Said, Wren, Wrens

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.

Butterfly, Endlessly, Mind, Purpose, Tendency, Thing

Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to God's purposes, even to the point of possibly making moral mistakes. One's obedience to God must be forward-oriented and zealous and free, and to be a mere moralist or pietist would make such a life impossible.

Free, Mistake, Mistakes, Sacrifice, Zealous

Atheism tells him what he isn’t, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Atheism, Know, Knows, Like, Tells, Yearns

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Axiomatic, Bonhoeffer, Limits, Ships, Testify, Trying

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Dark, Faith, Leap, Light

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Accepting, Authority, Foolishly, Gone, Rejecting, Way

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal. " Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

Besides, Democracy, Goal, Power, Raw, Real

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

God, Heard, Hope, Prayer, Prayers

Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.

Book, Christian, Fate, Mere, Tales, Today

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