Quotes by Josh McDowell

About Josh McDowell:

Joslin is a Christian apologist, evangelist, and writer. He is within the Evangelical tradition of Protestant Christianity, and is the author or co-author of some 115 books. His best-known book is Evidence That Demands a Verdict, which was ranked 13th in Christianity Today??'?s list of most influential evangelical books published after World War II. Other well-known titles are More Than a Carpenter, A Ready Defense and Right from Wrong.
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Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

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For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

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The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.

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My greatest asset now is my focus.

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You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.

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I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

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If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.

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Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

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The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

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Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

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I thought Christians were walking idiots.

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When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

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No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

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The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disintegration of the families in the church.

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Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.

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What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed hi...

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Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

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My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

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Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.

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Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

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Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

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Author Bio

  • NameJosh McDowell
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornAugust 17, 1939
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Theologian