Eric Metaxas Quotes

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.

I try to base my life on the principles of Christ. I try to raise my family on the principles of Christ. I don't know if that makes me religious.

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.

We are really living in a culturally, post-Christian nation. The fundamental norms Christians have long been able to depend upon no longer exist.

The church that weds itself to the culture of the day, will be a widow with each succeeding age.

If you cannot make a positive contribution, at least do not impede.

It is our responsibility to speak on social and moral issues for the instruction of the church and its members.

I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch.

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity .. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit ... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press - in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past ... (few) years.

I am not ashamed to be a Christian, and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is a Christian, for without the help of the Almighty I do not think he could rightly judge in ruling so many people. I have advised all of my people who are not Christians, to study that religion, because it seems to me the best religion in enabling one to live right.

Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.

The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather, it involves the proclamation of the truth of Christ.