Top 70 Eric Metaxas Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “True faith is not a leap into the dark; it’s a leap into the light.”

— Eric Metaxas

2. “Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one’s brain.”

— Eric Metaxas

3. “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.”

— Eric Metaxas

4. “Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that’s because it is the most threatening to those in power.”

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5. “Einstein himself said, “You can speak of the ethical foundations of science, but you cannot speak of the scientific foundations of ethics.”

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

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7. “So what is “heart”? It’s courage, but courage to do what? The courage to do the right thing when all else tells you not to do it. The courage to rise above your surroundings and circumstances. The courage to be God’s idea of a real man and to give of yourself for others when it costs you to do so and when everything tells you to look out for yourself first.”

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8. “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.”

— Eric Metaxas

9. “The ‘success’ of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and ‘grasps’ us, or we cannot be ’grasped.”

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10. “Do not defend God’s Word, but testify to it .”

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

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12. “Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will.”

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

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14. “The Scriptures were plain and could not be gainsaid on this most basic point: all that was his – his wealth, his talents, his time – was not really his. It all belonged to God and had been given to him to use for God’s purposes and according to God’s will. God had blessed him so that he, in turn, might bless others, especially those less fortunate than himself.”

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15. “At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God. But.”

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16. “Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who also was and is his God.”

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

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18. “That’s the point of miracles – to point us beyond our world to another world. They are clues that that other world is not in our imaginations but is actually out there, wherever “out there” actually is. Peggy Noonan once wrote that she thought miracles existed “in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.” If miracles exist at all, they exist not for their own sake but for us, to point us toward something beyond. To someone beyond.”

— Eric Metaxas

19. “Actions must follow what one believed, else one could not claim to believe it.”

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20. “We’ve gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.”

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21. “It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.”

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

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23. “It is a question of the freedom of God, which finds its strongest evidence precisely in that God freely chose to be bound to historical human beings and to be placed at the disposal of human beings. God is free not from human beings but for them. Christ is the word of God’s freedom.”

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24. “A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.”

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25. “Speak out for those who cannot speak” – who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?”

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26. “If someone believes it is our faith that heals us and forgets that it is God who does it, we should ask that person how much faith Lazarus had. Remember, he was decomposing in a tomb when Jesus raised him from death. His faith obviously didn’t matter. It was all God. It is God and God’s grace that heals, not our prayers and not our “faith.” Though we are exhorted by God to pray to him, we cannot compel him to do what we wish. DO.”

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27. “The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.”

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28. “If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where he is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me.”

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29. “If we remove the idea of a supernatural God who is free to act in miraculous ways, we fall into the slough of despond inhabited by the scientistic naturalists. We essentially remove God himself from the Bible.”

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30. “If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. – C. S. LEWIS.”

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31. “Anyway, what do happiness and unhappiness mean? They depend so little on circumstances and so much more on what goes on inside us.”

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32. “Whether the church in America is really “free,” I doubt.”

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33. “It’s our job to “keep” the republic called America, and we can hardly keep what we don’t even know we have. So.”

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34. “When I consider the seven women I chose, I see that most of them were great for reasons that derive precisely from their being women, not in spite of it; and what made them great has nothing to do with their being measured against or competing with men. In other words, their accomplishments are not gender-neutral but are rooted in their singularity as women. All.”

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35. “Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as possible without attempting to help it along or dress it up.”

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36. “Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America’s poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.”

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37. “Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.”

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

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39. “This degree of fine-tuning is so great that it’s as if right after the universe beginning someone could have destroyed the possibility of life within it by subtracting a single dime’s mass from the whole of the observable universe or adding a single dime’s mass to it.”

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40. “In New York they preach about virtually everything; only one thing is not addressed, or is addressed so rarely that I have as yet been unable to hear it, namely, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the cross, sin and forgiveness, death and life. – DIETRICH BONHOEFFER.”

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41. “The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the Sermon on the Mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this. – DIETRICH BONHOEFFER.”

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42. “Ronald Reagan had a plaque on his desk that said “There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he does not mind who gets the credit.”

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43. “The religion of Christ,” he said, “is not a tidbit after one’s bread; on the contrary, it is the bread or it is nothing. People should at least understand and concede this if they call themselves Christian.”

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44. “How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence.” –.”

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45. “Taken all together, it’s difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world.”

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46. “She firmly believes feminism to be anti-woman because it pressures women to become more like men. Everyone.”

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47. “Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.”

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48. “But we know that true grace comes to us by costly sacrifice. And if God was willing to go to the cross and endure such pain and absorb such a cost in order to save us, then we must live sacrificially as we serve others. Anyone who truly understands how God’s grace comes to us will have a changed life. That’s the gospel, not salvation by law, or by cheap grace, but by costly grace. Costly grace changes you from the inside out. Neither.”

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49. “He wanted to transmit the same culture of selflessness here that had been practiced in his home as a child. Selfishness, laziness, self-pity, poor sportsmanship, and the like were not tolerated. He made that legacy of his upbringing a part of these seminaries.”

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50. “Some wondered whether he was just kicking against the goads, but when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn’t join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn’t. “If you board the wrong train,” he said, “it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.”

— Eric Metaxas