J P Moreland Quotes

We need not get distracted by the seeming defeat or troubles of our daily lives ("what is seen"), because this affliction is actually being used by God to transform our character (2 Corinthians 3:18) so we can become the kind of citizens who will flourish in his future kingdom ("what is not seen"). ~ J.P. Moreland

Merely exhorting people to be more committed to God - "just have more faith" - seldom produces greater confidence and dedicated trust in God. Rather, what is needed is a realistic picture of a flourishing life lived deeply in tune with God 's kingdom - a life that is so utterly compelling that failure to exercise greater commitment to life in that kingdom will feel like a foolish, tragic missed opportunity for entering into something truly dramatic and desirable. ~ J.P. Moreland

Mr. Dawkins' assertions are self-refuting- ie. Actual infinity vs. potential infinity easily makes the most reasonable argument for theism and a Deity. Now, the argument for the Creator God of Christianity requires much more time, energy, and logical effort."


~R. Alan Woods [2007] ~ R. Alan Woods

What hell does is recognize that people have intrinsic value. If God loves intrinsic value, then he has go to be a sustainer of persons, because that means he is a sustainer of intrinsic value. ~ J.P. Moreland

Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure, Christians must rely on the Holy Spirit in their intellectual pursuits, but this does not mean they should expend no mental sweat of their own in defending the faith ~ J.P. Moreland

Love God with all your mind ... ~ J.P. Moreland

God loved me enough to make me aware, at a deep experiential level, of my own pride and sinfulness, and my desperate need for his mercy and continuing work in my life as a believer. ~ J.P. Moreland

But their overall effect was to overemphasize immediate personal conversion to Christ instead of a studied period of reflection and conviction; emotional, simple, popular preaching instead of intellectually careful and doctrinally precise sermons; and personal feelings and relationship to Christ instead of a deep grasp of the nature of Christian teaching and ideas. ~ J.P. Moreland

We need to admit the mind into Christian fellowship again. We need the mind disciplined in Christ, enlightened by faith, passionate for God and his creation, to be let loose in the world. ~ J.P. Moreland

While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a surrogate for a Higher Power. ~ J.P. Moreland

If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them. ~ J.P. Moreland

While forgiveness is an important part of the gospel, the good news goes beyond that. It amounts to the claim that the kingdom of God - the direct availability of God himself and His rule - is now available to anyone who will enter it through trust in Jesus. ~ J.P. Moreland

Many atheists embrace Jesus as having been a great teacher, and yet he's the one who had the most to say about hell. ~ J.P. Moreland

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action. ~ J.P. Moreland

The gospel of the kingdom is an invitation to a different reality, a different way of living. The kingdom is a new way of relating as people. Where ordinary human life is based on competitiveness and defensiveness, domination and subjugation, treachery and violence, the kingdom is based on the self-giving love of God. ~ J.P. Moreland

You must understand that in the afterlife, our personalities reflect an adult situation anyway, so we can say for sure that there will be no children in hell. ~ J.P. Moreland

Satan uses any means, ethical or unethical, to distract us from trusting in God, drawing us away to trust in ourselves by moving us into fear, into anger, into pride. ~ J.P. Moreland

The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls. ~ J.P. Moreland

Ought not a Minister to have, First, a good understanding, a clear apprehension, a sound judgment, and a capacity of reasoning with some closeness ... Is not some acquaintance with what has been termed the second part of logic, (metaphysics), if not so necessary as [logic itself], yet highly expedient? Should not a Minister be acquainted with at least the general grounds of natural philosophy? JOHN WESLEY, ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY ~ J.P. Moreland

...this life is the incubation period! ~ J.P. Moreland

The degree of someone's just punishment is not a function of how long it took to commit the deed; rather, it's a function of how severe the deed itself was. ~ J.P. Moreland

When God chooses to create somebody, he or she has an impact on other people's choices and it might be that they have an impact on their decisions to trust Christ or not. ~ J.P. Moreland

Today, people are inclined to think that the sincerity and fervency of one's beliefs are more important than the content. As long as we believe something honestly and strongly, we are told, then that is all that really matters. Reality is basically indifferent to how sincerely we believe something. ~ J.P. Moreland

In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile. ~ J.P. Moreland

When God is making these judgements, his purpose is not to keep as many people out of hell as possible. His goal is to get as many people into heaven as possible. ~ J.P. Moreland

If normative relativism is true, then it is logically impossible for a society to have a virtuous, moral reformer like Jesus Christ, Gandhi, or Martin Luther King Jr. Why? Moral reformers are members of a society who stand outside that society's code and pronounce a need for reform and change in that code. However, if an act is right if and only if it is in keeping with a given society's code, then the moral reformer is by definition an immoral person, for his views are at odds with those of his society. Moral reformers must always be wrong because they go against the code of their society. But any view that implies moral reformers are impossible is defective. ~ J.P. Moreland

The current understanding of happiness identifies it as a pleasurable feeling. Pleasant feelings are surely better than unpleasant ones, but the problem today is that people are obsessively concerned with feeling happiness; people are slaves to their feelings. Feelings are wonderful servants but terrible masters. When people make happiness their goal, they do not find it and, as a result, start living their lives vicariously through identification with celebrities. ~ J.P. Moreland

From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived during the Civil War had more in common with Abraham than with us. If Christians are going to speak to that world and interact with it responsibly, they must interact with science. ~ J.P. Moreland

Tolerance has come to mean that no one is right and no one is wrong and, indeed, the very act of stating that someone else's views are immoral or incorrect is now taken to be intolerant (of course, from this same point of view, it is all right to be intolerant of those who hold to objectively true moral or religious positions). Once the existence of knowable truth in religion and ethics is denied, authority (the right to be believed and obeyed) gives way to power (the ability to force compliance), reason gives way to rhetoric, the speech writer is replaced by the makeup man, and spirited but civil debate in the culture wars is replaced by politically correct special-interest groups who have nothing left but political coercion to enforce their views on others. ~ J.P. Moreland

Immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us that one must have lost all feeling not to care about knowing the facts of the matter. ~ J.P. Moreland

We start by trusting our reason. But, later, we encounter skeptical arguments against that trust and so we stop trusting reason. But once we do this, we no longer have any reason to accept the skeptical arguments themselves and continue our mistrust of reason. At this point, I begin to trust reason again, but then, the skeptical arguments reassert themselves and so forth. We have entered a vicious dialectical loop that, eventually, will reach a sort of intellectual paralysis. ~ J.P. Moreland

Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life is not something we get, but something we give. ~ J.P. Moreland

I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards. ~ J.P. Moreland

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers ~ J.P. Moreland

People in heaven will not be denied the privilege of enjoying their life just because they're consciously aware of hell. If they couldn't, then hell would have veto power over heaven. ~ J.P. Moreland

I am responsible for what I believe and, I might add, for what I refuse to believe, because the content of what I do or do not believe makes a tremendous difference to what I become and how I act. ~ J.P. Moreland

Furthermore, our initial perception of God is largely formed by our interaction with our parents and other early caregivers. As children, to be safe, we developed ways of coping with our imperfect parents. And due to these varied challenging experiences in our childhood, perhaps some of us may wonder how safe God really is. ~ J.P. Moreland

Grief, I discovered, feels not so very different from defeat. And ~ J.P. Delaney

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. ~ J.P. Donleavy

History is the great propagator of doubt. ~ A.J.P. Taylor

Rose was patently a degenerate. Nature, in scheduling his characteristics, had pruned all superlatives. The rude armour of the flesh, under which the spiritual, like a hide-bound chrysalis, should develop secret and self-contained, was perished in his case, as it were, to a semi-opaque suit, through which his soul gazed dimly and fearfully on its monstrous arbitrary surroundings. Not the mantle of the poet, philosopher, or artist fallen upon such, can still its shiverings, or give the comfort that Nature denies.

Yet he was a little bit of each - poet, philosopher, and artist; a nerveless and self-deprecatory stalker of ideals, in the pursuit of which he would wear patent leather shoes and all the apologetic graces. The grandson of a 'three-bottle' J.P., who had upheld the dignity of the State constitution while abusing his own in the best spirit of squirearchy; the son of a petulant dyspeptic, who alternated seizures of long moroseness with fits of abject moral helplessnes, Amos found his inheritance in the reversion of a dissipated constitution, and an imagination as sensitive as an exposed nerve. Before he was thirty he was a neurasthenic so practised, as to have learned a sense of luxury in the very consciousness of his own suffering. It was a negative evolution from the instinct of self-protection - self-protection, as designed in this case, against the attacks of the unspeakable.

("The Accursed Cordonnier") ~ Bernard Capes

You are as great as you allow yourself to be. ~ J.P. Galuska

No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking. ~ J.P.R. Williams

If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield! ~ J.P. Vaswani

One of the curious aspects of a traumatic experience like the one you've been through, she says at last, is how it sometimes results in a softening of your existing boundaries. Sometimes the changes are temporary. But sometimes the person finds they actually quite like this new aspect of their personality, and it becomes a part of them. ~ J.P. Delaney

In retrospect, though many were guilty, none was innocent. ~ A.J.P. Taylor

Love is the harmony of two souls singing together. ~ Gregory J. P. Godek

Expect the worst
And that's what
You'll get
Only it will be
Much worse. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion. ~ George Orwell

Learning the difference between God's intervention, the devil's mischief, and PMS can lead to increased happiness. ~ J.P. Galuska

Jamie Dimon and J.P. Morgan are contributing millions to the Remain campaign because they do very nicely, thank you, out of the E.U. ~ Michael Gove

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes. ~ J. P. Morgan

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. ~ A.J.P. Taylor

One of the strange things about grief is the way it ambushes you when you least expect it. ~ J.P. Delaney

Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust. ~ J. P. Morgan

We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information. ~ J.P. Rangaswami

We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything. ~ J.P. Delaney

To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually. ~ J. P. Guilford

This had happened. That's what I told myself. I had been played for a fool, and I wasn't the first woman to believe a man's lies, nor would I be the last, but this counted for a lesson learned. ~ J.P. Monninger

Don't just discover . . . Encounter! ~ J.P. Osterman

Triumph belongs to thought. Change your thinking and you change your life! You become new! ~ J.P. Vaswani

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction ~ A.J.P. Taylor

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients. ~ A.J.P. Taylor

Nothing is always. Nothing in the universe is always. ~ J.P. Monninger

He is the kindest, gentlest man I have ever met, I'm so mad about him I don't know what to do with myself. Honestly, I don't. I keep telling myself this is nutty, this can't be happening, but then he does something else, something so sweet and thoughtful that it knocks me over again. ~ J.P. Monninger

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs. ~ J. P. Morgan

All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ever feel like that about me? ~ J.P. Delaney

This Boston voice squeaking out its song. The yellow light goes out the window on the stubs of windy grass and black rocks. And down the wet steps by gorse stumps and rusty heather to the high water mark and diving pool. Where the seaweeds rise and fall at night in Balscaddoon Bay. ~ J.P. Donleavy

J.P. Morgan once had a friend who was so worried about his stock holdings that he could not sleep at night. The friend asked, 'What should I do about my stocks?' Morgan replied, 'Sell down to your sleeping point' Every investor must decide the trade-off he or she is willing to make between eating well and sleeping well. High investment rewards can only be achieved at the cost of substantial risk-taking. So what is your sleeping point? Finding the answer to this question is one of the most important investment steps you must take. ~ Burton Malkiel

Keep yourself active all the time. The best of noblest of actions is to bring comfort to the comfortless. ~ Dada J. P. Vaswani

His younger brothers, Allen and Anthony, hadn't come downstairs yet. Aaron, Allen, and Anthony - their straight As, as his parents had joked before their first A became an F. ~ J.P. Barnaby

The same goes for Edward Monkford. Yes, based on what you've told me, it seems Emma was the real narcissist, not him. But there's no doubting he's an extreme controller. What happens when a controller comes up against someone who's out of control? The combination could be explosive. ~ J.P. Delaney

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever. ~ J.P. Donleavy

There's a kind of purity to a relationship unencumbered by convention, a sense of simplicity and freedom. ~ J.P. Delaney

Give, give, give – until it hurts to give! This will release you from bondage to the ego – and to things. ~ Dada J.P. Vaswani

Eva and Anne Morgan, one a niece and the other a daughter of J. P. Morgan, the most powerful financier in U.S. history, used their family's money to finance women workers who were protesting before and after the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, even putting up a Fifth Avenue mansion as security for bail when those protesters were arrested. The ~ Gloria Steinem

I'll tell you something that was unusual, though. When most people are caught lying to the police, they cave in pretty quickly. Emma's response was to tell another lie. It might have been planted in her head by her brief, but even so that's not a common reaction. ~ J.P. Delaney

I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme. ~ J. P. Morgan

Harsh words can cause more wounds than sticks and stones. ~ Dada J.P. Vaswani

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next? ~ A.J.P. Taylor

Peace of mind is much better than giving them a piece of your mind. ~ J. P. McEvoy

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money. ~ J.P. Donleavy

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. ~ J.P. Donleavy

History is not a catalogue but ... a convincing version of events. ~ A.J.P. Taylor