Top 35 Norman L. Geisler Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “William Dembski points out, “If a creature looks like a dog, smells like a dog, barks like a dog, feels like a dog, and pants like a dog, the burden of evidence lies with the person insisting the creature isn’t a dog.”

— Norman L. Geisler

2. “Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us.”

— Norman L. Geisler

3. “God has provided enough evidence in this life to convince anyone willing to believe, yet he has also left some ambiguity so as not to compel the unwilling.”

— Norman L. Geisler

4. “On the other hand, if there is no God, then your life ultimately means nothing. Since there is no enduring purpose to life, there’s no right or wrong way to live it. And it doesn’t matter how you live or what you believe – your destiny is dust.”

— Norman L. Geisler

5. “If for no other reason, God sometimes allows us to suffer pain so that we can comfort others suffering in a like situation.”

— Norman L. Geisler

6. “One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.”

— Norman L. Geisler

7. “The law of karma has made it so. According to classic Hinduism, if someone were to help those people by easing their suffering, they would be working against the law of karma. People suffer to work off their karmic debt, and if you helped them, then they would have to come back again and suffer even more to work off that debt. Plus, you would be doing something cruel by not letting them suffer, and you would increase your own karma problems. Helping.”

— Norman L. Geisler

8. “The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.”

— Norman L. Geisler

9. “Any denial of truth presupposes truth, so the existence of truth is inescapable.”

— Norman L. Geisler

10. “If something is true, it’s true for all people, at all times, in all places. All truth claims are absolute, narrow, and exclusive.”

— Norman L. Geisler

11. “Einstein said that he wanted “to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thought, the rest are details.”3.”

— Norman L. Geisler

12. “If we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain.” – C. S. LEWIS.”

— Norman L. Geisler

13. “To say that evil is a privation is not the same as saying that it is a mere absence or negation of good. The power of sight is found neither in a blind man nor in a rock. But it is a privation for the blind man, whereas it is a mere absence in the rock.”

— Norman L. Geisler

14. “Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it’s true for all people, at all times, in all places.”

— Norman L. Geisler

15. “Truth is not affected by the attitude of the one professing it.”

— Norman L. Geisler

16. “Andy Stanley put it well: “My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school science teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I’m going to believe Jesus instead.”

— Norman L. Geisler

17. “A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.”

— Norman L. Geisler

18. “C. S. Lewis observed, if Christ is not God, then he could not have been an exemplary prophet or a great moral teacher, because he claimed to be God. If he was not who he said he was, then he was either a liar or a lunatic, hardly a great moral teacher or prophet.”

— Norman L. Geisler

19. “When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus “What is truth?” nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn’t wait for Jesus to respond.”

— Norman L. Geisler

20. “If God is love and humans are free, then there must be a hell. Not only would it be a contradiction for God to force people to love him, but it would also be hell for them to be forced to love the One they hate.”

— Norman L. Geisler

21. “What’s the greatest problem in America today? Is it ignorance or is it apathy?” One time a student answered, “I don’t know, and I don’t care!”

— Norman L. Geisler

22. “Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.”

— Norman L. Geisler

23. “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’” – C. S. LEWIS.”

— Norman L. Geisler

24. “The truth of the matter is this: false ideas about truth lead to false ideas about life.”

— Norman L. Geisler

25. “In the Old Testament the Rose of Sharon is just budding, but in the New Testament it is in full bloom. The whole Bible is all about Jesus.”

— Norman L. Geisler

26. “Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life – reasonable people don’t shoot unless they’re absolutely sure they won’t kill an innocent human being.”

— Norman L. Geisler

27. “We should certainly honor the principle that all people are equal in God’s sight and entitled to equal protection of the laws as well as fair, courteous, and respectful treatment. But there is no moral imperative that we adopt the notion that all belief systems are equally true. There is a moral imperative that we do not.”

— Norman L. Geisler

28. “God overrules the evil intent of humans to accomplish His ultimate good.”

— Norman L. Geisler

29. “Why do we say, “That’s true for you but not for me,” when we’re talking about morality or religion, but we never even think of such nonsense when we’re talking to a stock broker about our money or a doctor about our health?”

— Norman L. Geisler

30. “Christianity is one of the few worldviews that can justify absolute human rights because it affirms that those rights are given to us by God. As our founders recognized, governments aren’t meant to give or take away rights: governments are meant to secure rights that the people already possess. That’s what we affirmed in our Declaration of Independence.”

— Norman L. Geisler

31. “J. dBudziszewski points out, “The motto ‘Reason Alone!’ is nonsense anyway. Reason itself presupposes faith. Why? Because a defense of reason by reason is circular, therefore worthless. Our only guarantee that human reason works is God who made it.”

— Norman L. Geisler

32. “You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. 10.”

— Norman L. Geisler

33. “If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?”

— Norman L. Geisler

34. “Without an objective standard of meaning and morality, then life is meaningless and there’s nothing absolutely right or wrong. Everything is merely a matter of opinion.”

— Norman L. Geisler

35. “To tell you the truth: I don’t believe in God. I’m an atheist.” “You’re an atheist?” “That’s right!” “Well, are you absolutely sure there is no God?” I asked him. He paused, and said, “Well, no, I’m not absolutely sure. I guess it’s possible there might be a God.” “So you’re not really an atheist, then – you’re an agnostic,” I informed him, “because an atheist says, ‘I know there is no God,’ and an agnostic says ‘I don’t know whether there is a God.”

— Norman L. Geisler

36. “If the Moral Law doesn’t exist, then there’s no moral difference between the behavior of Mother Teresa and that of Hitler.”

— Norman L. Geisler

37. “In the Gospels – Jesus is the prophet to his people. In Acts and the Epistles – Jesus is the priest for his people. In the book of Revelation – Jesus is the King over his people.”

— Norman L. Geisler

38. “There are none who are as deaf as those who do not want to hear.” – BARRY LEVENTHAL.”

— Norman L. Geisler

39. “People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. – BLAISE PASCAL.”

— Norman L. Geisler