Quote

I am not a Christian because God changed my life I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

Josh McDowell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Josh McDowell
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 17
Apologist
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Writer
Union City
Michigan
Josh P. McDowell
Christian
Christ
Life
Convictions
Conviction
Changed
Jesus

More quotes by Josh McDowell

Image
Truth is objective because God exists outside ourselves it is universal because God is above all it is constant because God is eternal. Absolute truth is absolute because it originates from the original.
Josh McDowell
Image
Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
Josh McDowell
Image
I thought Christians were walking idiots.
Josh McDowell
Image
Tolerance is the worst roar of all, including tolerance for homosexuals, feminists, and religions that don't follow Christ.
Josh McDowell
Image
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.
Josh McDowell
Image
When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Dont go it alone - you wont make it.
Josh McDowell
Image
Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
Josh McDowell
Image
I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.
Josh McDowell
Image
Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences.
Josh McDowell
Image
Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.’
Josh McDowell
Image
God created us, He created us for His glory, and He created us to have a relationship with Him, and He created us to be all that He desires us to be and He's jealous of that because He does not want to share that with others.
Josh McDowell
Image
We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.
Josh McDowell
Image
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
Josh McDowell
Image
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.
Josh McDowell
Image
One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.
Josh McDowell
Image
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
Image
We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.
Josh McDowell
Image
How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.
Josh McDowell
Image
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
Josh McDowell
Image
My heart and mind were created to work in harmony together. Never has an individual been called upon to commit intellectual suicide in trusting Christ as Savior and Lord.
Josh McDowell