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The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists QUOTES

The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists QUOTES

1 " That truth, by the way, is why even the horror of hell is more the outcome of a heart that seeks to disown God and play God and live eternally with those who do the same than it is retribution against evil. C. S. Lewis once wrote that “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.’”46 "

― Ravi Zacharias , The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

2 " Isn't it ironic that when Islam is in a position of power, Islamic beliefs are forced on everyone, and that when atheism has the upper hand, atheistic beliefs are enforced on everyone? Only in Christianity is the privilege given both to believe and to disbelieve without any enforcement. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

3 " Denying the existence of God leads us to preposterous conclusions so that, in the end, the amoral world of the skeptic who simply cannot explain good is worse than the world of the theist who has an explanation for evil. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

4 " The worldview of the Christian faith is simple enough. God has put enough into this world to make faith in him a most reasonable thing. But he has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone. The "

― Ravi Zacharias , The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

5 " When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right.” There was a pin-drop silence. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

6 " Atheists seem to exercise their reductionistic tendencies selectively. If religion stands in the way of saving people, these people have infinite worth. But if the scientist stands in the way of preserving human life, the embryo is “nothing more than a dot. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

7 " Jesus worked by changing the heart, not by legislating. Legislation can only force compliance. It can never produce the love necessary to change an attitude. Jesus "

― Ravi Zacharias , The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

8 " Pleasure without boundaries produces a life without purpose. That is real pain. No death, no tragedy, no atrocity—nothing really matters. Life is sheer hollowness, with no purpose. In "

― Ravi Zacharias , The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

9 " Do you remember what Karl Marx said? He would have been proud of Sam Harris's metaphysical moorings on religion, for he tried the same thing Harris is trying. Marx said that religion is “the opium of the people.” Yes, everybody who hates religion remembers this quote. But they forget, deliberately or otherwise, what Marx said in continuation of that thought: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people…. Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.”35 Atheists want us to revolve around ourselves—no, even more, to revolve around their fluctuating philosophies. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists

10 " Psychiatry, in fact, is wrestling with the ramifications of a drug that removes guilt and remorse. What kind of a world will we have when a rapist can take a morning-after pill? "

― Ravi Zacharias , The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists