Latest John Lennox Quotes from Interviews

• The new atheism as an old atheism, except it's much more aggressive. The new atheism wants to destroy religion. That's a very different thing. The arguments are not new, it's the aggression that's new.

  John Lennox

  Atheism, Different, Want

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

• People don't like preaching, but discussion, presenting a case, and that's important. Therefore, I think we need to learn to dialogue much more.

  John Lennox

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

• Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like me, who believe in God, than you think. There are not dozens of them, but they are there, and in Cambridge too, and elsewhere. We are not in a tiny minority.

  John Lennox

  Believe, Thinking, Oxford

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

• All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we obey its laws. I think we must recognize that common moral base. But in alliances we must always be careful just of what level the alliance is perceived. I will go and lecture to an atheist society, for example, but I will not lecture for them, because I am not an atheist. You see the difference.

  John Lennox

  Country, Atheist, Thinking

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

• The idea of separating church and state by the Founding Fathers of America was freedom from the domination of one form of religion, because many of them left England, because they were persecuted by the church, because they want to express their Christian faith in a different way. So it was a bit of warfare between Christians.

  John Lennox

  Christian, Father, Ideas

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

• The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened.

  John Lennox

  Father, Squares, America

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

• Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.

  John Lennox

  Christian, Giving, Culture

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

• How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'created' a morality, but that's all it would be, an illusion.

  John Lennox

  Thinking, Would Be, Might

  Source: thinkingaboutcreation.blogspot.com

• People feel that the Bible is unequivocal in stating that the age of the earth is very young and so on and so forth, and so the big things get lumped together with the lesser things. And the age of the earth is for example virtually made a touchstone of doctrine, when there's so much evidence out there in science against it.

  John Lennox

  People, Age, Together

  Source: thinkingaboutcreation.blogspot.com

• It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.

  John Lennox

  Christian, Atheist, Problem

  Source: thinkingaboutcreation.blogspot.com

• I've got a telescope in my garden and one of the things I love to do is go out and let the sky, the night sky, the galaxies, the Orion nebula, have an impact on my mind. I find that awe inspiring. And just to contemplate on what the astronomers have revealed to us about the immense size and so on of the universe. I find that very healthy. And it's a good thing to do.

  John Lennox

  Night, Garden, Sky

  Source: www.asenseofawe.net

• Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic.

  John Lennox

  Trying, Sound, Looks

  Source: www.asenseofawe.net

• I usually have a very clear idea of where I want a song to go, sometimes very specific notes, but I'm generally open to suggestions.

  John Lennox

  Song, Ideas, Suggestions

  Source: mamrecords.com