Top 40 William Lane Craig Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you’re sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.”

— William Lane Craig

2. “It’s no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.”

— William Lane Craig

3. “Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.”

— William Lane Craig

4. “Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.”

— William Lane Craig

5. “The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe...”

— William Lane Craig

6. “The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God’s Holy Spirit.”

— William Lane Craig

7. “No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God.”

— William Lane Craig

8. “The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.”

— William Lane Craig

9. “Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal.”

— William Lane Craig

10. “Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.”

— William Lane Craig

11. “If the atheist believes that suffering is bad or ought not to be, then he’s making moral judgments that are possible only if God exists.”

— William Lane Craig

12. “The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God’s existence apart from divine revelation.”

— William Lane Craig

13. “Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.”

— William Lane Craig

14. “For the assertion that “There is no God” is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that “There is a God.” Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.”

— William Lane Craig

15. “If true love came at a price, the price would be all worth while if i was spending it on you.”

— William Lane Craig

16. “Even if the disciples had believed in the resurrection of Jesus, it is doubtful they would have generated any following. So long as the body was interred in the tomb, a Christian movement founded on belief in the resurrection of the dead man would have been an impossible folly.”

— William Lane Craig

17. “It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man.”

— William Lane Craig

18. “Paradoxically, then, even though the problem of suffering is the greatest objection to the existence of God, at the end of the day God is the only solution to the problem of suffering. If God does not exist, then we are locked without hope in a world filled with pointless and unredeemed suffering.”

— William Lane Craig

19. “Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.”

— William Lane Craig

20. “When you’re going through hard times and God seems distant, apologetics can help you to remember that our faith is not based on emotions, but on the truth, and therefore you must hold on to it.”

— William Lane Craig

21. “Apologetics comes from the Greek word apologia, which means a defense, as in a court of law. Christian apologetics involves making a case for the truth of the Christian faith.”

— William Lane Craig

22. “But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.”

— William Lane Craig

23. “If God does not exist, our lives are ultimately meaningless, valueless, and purposeless despite how desperately we cling to the illusion to the contrary.”

— William Lane Craig

24. “As the French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre observed, several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.”

— William Lane Craig

25. “We have seen that multiple lines of historical evidence indicate that Jesus’ tomb was found empty on Sunday morning by a group of his women followers. Furthermore, no convincing natural explanation is available to account for this fact. This alone might prompt us to believe that the resurrection of Jesus is the best explanation.”

— William Lane Craig

26. “The first question which should rightly be asked is: Why is there something rather than nothing?”

— William Lane Craig

27. “The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp.”

— William Lane Craig

28. “Mere duration of existence doesn’t make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.”

— William Lane Craig

29. “For a universe without moral accountability and devoid of value is unimaginably terrible.”

— William Lane Craig

30. “Scepticism, ironically, draws its life’s blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, ‘Since every possible option has not been explored, nothing can be said for certain.’ That statement is itself a claim to knowledge!”

— William Lane Craig

31. “God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists.”

— William Lane Craig

32. “Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.”

— William Lane Craig

33. “From earliest times men wholly ignorant of the Bible have concluded on the basis of the design in the universe that God must exist.”

— William Lane Craig

34. “The origin of the Christian faith is therefore inexplicable unless Jesus really rose from the dead.”

— William Lane Craig

35. “The conclusion that belief in God has become intellectually indefensible for thinking people today is false.”

— William Lane Craig

36. “If God is dead, then man is dead too.”

— William Lane Craig

37. “It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.”

— William Lane Craig

38. “How would you explain the fact that atheists just know that harming an innocent human being is wrong, and can live good lives, without believing that God is the ultimate source of values and duties? To repeat: Belief in God is not necessary for objective morality; God is.”

— William Lane Craig

39. “Christians have an unfair advantage in the marketplace of ideas: We have truth on our side! You.”

— William Lane Craig

40. “Time has a savage way of gnawing away at life, leaving it transitory and incomplete, so that life in its fullness can never be enjoyed by any temporal being.”

— William Lane Craig

41. “Man’s condition ought to impel him to seek to discover whether there is a God and a solution to his predicament. But people occupy their time and their thoughts with trivialities and distractions, so as to avoid the despair, boredom, and anxiety that would inevitably result if those diversions were removed.”

— William Lane Craig

42. “The United States is following at some distance down this same road, with Canada somewhere in between. If the situation is not to degenerate further, it is imperative that we shape the intellectual climate of our nation in such a way that Christianity remains a live option for thinking men and women.”

— William Lane Craig