Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God, and we will be ever grateful for the information, and you will ever have the pleasing reflection that you have been instruments in the hands of God of redeeming your fellow beings from the darkness which you may see enveloping their minds.

I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.

The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

A Christian philosophy of literature begins with the same agenda of issues that any philosophy of literature addresses. Its distinctive feature is that it relates these issues to the Christian faith.

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.