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• MAKE STATEMENTS also applies to us women: Speak in statements instead of apologetic questions. No one wants to go to a doctor who says, “I’m going to be your surgeon? I’m here to talk to you about your procedure? I was first in my class at Johns Hopkins, so?” Make statements, with your actions and your voice.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Class, Voice

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• You mark my words: Whenever a cult attacks Christianity, the first place they're going to go is they're going to attack the deity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; is that not true? They are going to attack His deity. Throughout 2000 years of Christian history, we have had to build walls to keep them out. We have had to fight, we have had to amass arms, we have had to do apologetics, we have had to do it all. It is our purpose and our responsibility to proclaim that Jesus Christ is God.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Jesus, Wall

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• The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

  Criss Jami

  Opponents, Arguing, Position

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.13, Criss Jami

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• If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half the human race has been cheated and deceived, and churches are monuments of folly. If the Bible is the Word of God and inspired, all who refuse to believe it are in fearful danger; they are living on the brink of eternal misery. No man, in his sober senses, can fail to see that the whole subject demands most serious attention.

  J. C. Ryle

  Believe, Men, Race

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• It's fine to deal with people's doubts and explain why they have good reasons to believe in Christ. But until we tell them the good news of Jesus Christ, we haven't done our job. They need a saviour that God has provided them in Christ. Once they know that, we can do as much apologetics as we need to.

  Mark Dever

  Jesus, Jobs, Believe

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.

  Charles Colson

  Ordinary, Backyards, Culture

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• For me, apologetics proved to be the turning point of my life and eternity. I'm thankful for the scholars who so passionately and effectively defend the truth of Christianity - and today my life's goal is to do my part in helping others get answers to the questions that are blocking them in their spiritual journey toward Christ.

  Lee Strobel

  Spiritual, Block, Helping Others

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• I've got friends who are so good at getting away with things, like going up to the desk to get upgraded on a plane, for example. I haven't got any of that kind of confidence in those situations. I look so awkward. I act awkward. I'm really apologetic. I fail to get anything that way.

  Ruth Wilson

  Awkward, Way, Example

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

  Wallace Stegner

  Husband, Wife, Dangerous

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.72, Penguin

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• Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Art, Saint

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• Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Judging, Community

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

  Lee Strobel

  Community, Important, Church

  "Lee Strobel: We're on Cusp of Golden Era of Apologetics". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.50, 谷月社

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• I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.

  Nigella Lawson

  Children, Thinking, People

  "A Woman of Extremes". Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 14, 2001.

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• I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.

  August Tholuck

  Lying, Heart, Infidelity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 137, 1895.

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• I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Administration, Policy

  "Cheney: 'We got it right'". Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 1, 2011.

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• The philosopher is not an apologist; apologetic concern, as Karl Barth (the one living theologian of unquestionable genius) has rightly insisted, is the death of serious theologizing, and I would add, equally of serious work in the philosophy of religion.

  Donald M. MacKinnon

  Philosophy, Add, Genius

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• The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.

  Edward John Carnell

  Heart, Demand, Doubters

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• It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Arguing, He Man

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• She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face toward me with an apologetic expression as though to say: "I have not forgotten that you are here but there are certain pleasures I cannot share with you." Her nose never ceased its sensitive quivering.

  Mazo de la Roche

  Funny, Dog, Travel

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• We need a new apologetic, geared to the needs of today, which keeps in mind that our task is not to win arguments but to win souls... Such an apologetic will need to breathe a spirit of humanity, that humility and compassion which understand the anxieties and questions of people.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Humility

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• If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a work shouldn't be dismissed simply because of the strong convictions of the writer. Should we discount the facticity or reliability of the accounts of Nazi concentration camp survivors simply because they passionately recount their story?

  Paul Copan

  Strong, Writing, Goal

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• You can’t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?” Sam’s grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up her knee quickly and decisively, and he dropped to the floor like a grain sack. “You can’t blame a girl for her quick reflexes now, can you, pal?

  Libba Bray

  Girl, New York, Kissing

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• I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic . . . it's a multifaceted experience. If you lose the faith, chances are you'll keep the guilt, so it isn't as if you've been skunked altogether.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sunday, Catholic, Feelings

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.22, Macmillan

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• ... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.

  Paula McLain

  Way, Charming

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.57, Ballantine Books

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