Top 70 Lee Strobel Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn’t comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.”

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2. “It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.”

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3. “I went to a psychologist friend and said if 500 people claimed to see Jesus after he died, it was just a hallucination. He said hallucinations are an individual event. If 500 people have the same hallucination, that’s a bigger miracle than the resurrection.”

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4. “Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing.”

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5. “To continue in atheism, I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn’t have that much faith.”

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6. “If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He’s terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.”

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7. “I’ve seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.”

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8. “Christianity is a very historical religion – it makes specific claims that are open to testing.”

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9. “Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.”

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10. “If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.”

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11. “Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism’s coffin.”

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12. “Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.”

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13. “I’m all for lifestyle evangelism, but I’m also in favor of intentionality, where we seek out opportunities for spiritual conversations and are equipped to explain the gospel and why we believe it.”

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14. “My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage – everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.”

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15. “Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,’ says C. S. Lewis.”

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16. “There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it’s all an illusion.”

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17. “Faith is only as good as the one in whom it’s invested.”

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18. “All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe – not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.”

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19. “Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.”

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20. “Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.”

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21. “Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison. It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it. Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.”

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22. “In a world where spiritual confusion is increasing, GodQuest helps bring clarity and conviction. This is a terrific resource for developing a solid foundation for faith.”

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23. “Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.”

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24. “When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.”

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25. “Nobody is beyond the reach of the Gospel.”

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26. “I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there’s an Intelligent Designer.”

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27. “Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.”

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28. “Doubts can produce positive side-effects – if you work toward resolving them.”

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29. “If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don’t see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that’s not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.”

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30. “Mother Teresa used the analogy of electricity: “The wire is you and me; the current is God,” she said. “We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, and produce the light of the world – Jesus.”

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31. “Learning about the intellectual basis for Christianity bolsters the faith of Christians-espe cially those who may be experiencing doubts-and prepares them to share Christ with others.”

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32. “A lot of people don’t give much thought to what they believe, and it’s easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.”

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33. “Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ.”

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34. “Science and faith are not at war. When scientific evidence and biblical teaching are correctly interpreted, they can and do support each other. I’d say to anyone who doubts that: investigate the evidence yourself.”

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35. “Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause.”

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36. “Wishful thinking doesn’t change reality.”

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37. “I do know plenty of atheists, agnostics and skeptics who have become Christians through the years. In fact, several of my friends were once strong atheists but are now committed followers of Jesus.”

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38. “There is no way you can harmonize neo-Darwinism and Christianity.”

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39. “If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.”

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40. “It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.”

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41. “I think it’s very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.”

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42. “An equal-opportunity phenomenon, the World Wide Web doesn’t discriminate between sober-minded scholars and delusional crackpots, leaving visitors without a reliable filter to determine what’s trustworthy and what’s not.”

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43. “Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.”

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44. “I certainly believe that God did create the world, yeah, absolutely I believe that.”

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45. “Hell was not part of the original creation. Hell is God’s fall-back position. Hell is something God was forced to make because people chose to rebel against him and turn against what was best for them and the purpose for which they were created.”

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46. “Satan greets people in hell by saying: “You’ll find that there’s no right or wrong here – just what works for you.”

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47. “We can’t treat the Bible with kid gloves. We really need to wrestle with the issues, because our faith depends on it.”

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48. “God didn’t let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity’s supreme happiness. Job’s suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.”

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49. “Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose? Sir John Templeton.”

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50. “One night I got a call from the church’s senior pastor, Bill Hybels. “I heard a nasty rumor about you,” he said. I was taken aback. “Like what?” “That you’re working at the church sixty or seventy hours a week. That you’re there late into the night and all day Sunday.” To be honest, I swelled with pride. That’s right, I wanted to say. I’m the hardest working member of the staff. Finally, it’s time for some recognition and thanks – if not directly from God, then from my pastor.”

— Lee Strobel