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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

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Josh McDowell
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 17
Apologist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
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Union City
Michigan
Josh P. McDowell
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Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.
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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.
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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.
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We may very well wake up in the not-too-distant future in a culture that is not only unreceptive but openly hostile to the church and the gospel of Jesus Christ, a culture in which those who proclaim the gospel will be labeled as bigots and fanatics, a culture in which persecution of Christians will be not only allowed but applauded.
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If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.
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After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
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Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.
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I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
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What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.
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