Joseph Boot > Quotes

“Either God exists or he does not. There is no middle ground. Both cannot be true. No amount of philosophical trickery can hide from the greatest antithesis of them all ... We cannot leave this question for the intellectuals, scientists, philosophers and theologians alone ... We must answer it for ourselves.”
― Joe Boot, A Time to Search

“The role of the Christian apologist is not to re-invent Christianity; it would cease to be Christianity if I did!”
― Joe Boot, A Time to Search

“We do not owe the truth to those who want to use it for evil.”
― Joe Boot

“The most fundamental of all questions that can possibly be asked is, 'Does God exist?' That is not to say that it is the foremost question on everybody's mind. You may well have decided that there is a God and have other questions that are more important to you than this one: How can I find peace and happiness? What does the future hold? How can I solve my personal problems? Other questions of this sort may be far more prominent issues. However, the existence of God has huge implications for all these others.”
― Joe Boot, A Time to Search

“God is not at a distance from history, uninvolved and on the periphery, an interested spectator or distant ‘first cause;’ rather he is governing all things by his providence and wisdom.”
― Joseph Boot, The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society

“The law manifests the sin that is in man. Grace manifests the mercy that is in God. The law demands righteousness from man. Grace brings righteousness to man.... The law speaks of what man must do for God. Grace tells what God has done for man. The law brings knowledge of sin. Grace brings the remedy for sin. The law brings the will of God to man but gives no power to obey. Grace gives man a desire to do the will of God and gives him power to obey.”
― Joseph Boot, The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society

“A true believing Christian...lives in his vocation by his faith. Not only my spiritual life but even my civil life in this world, and all the life I live, is by the faith of the Son of God; He exempts no life from the agency of his faith.”
― Joseph Boot, The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society

“They who will not have the law to rule them, shall never have the gospel to save them.41”
― Joseph Boot, The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society

“The glory of Greece and Rome was not so glorious as some would like to pretend, and the popular notion that Greek thought liberated men from superstition and veneration of the gods is essentially myth.”
― Joseph Boot, Gospel Culture: Living in God's Kingdom

“Keller seems to have become overanxious to please the current culture and sound trendy.50 His book is a good example of what happens when well-meaning evangelicals fail to clearly define justice and righteousness in terms of obedience to the law of God and instead import present cultural fads into their interpretative exercise: they end up with a hybrid abstraction that in the name of being biblical, reads humanistic views of justice onto Christianity.”
― Joseph Boot, The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society

“imagination or social convention but by the law of God which covered all areas of life.”
― Joseph Boot, The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society

“Cultivating an ethos that encloses personal piety in a pietistic cocoon, they leave public affairs to go their own way and neither expect nor, for the most part, seek influence beyond their own Christian circle…[but] the Puritans labored for a holy England and New England – sensing that where privilege is neglected and unfaithfulness reigns, national judgment threatens.”
― Joseph Boot, The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society

“They were motivated by goals that used to characterize most evangelicals. First, they believed in the importance of justice, or equity. Justice meant receiving what one was due under God, not absolute equality where everyone gets the same as everyone else. People are all different, having different gifts, families, backgrounds and abilities, and most important, are morally differentiated. For the Puritans, justice was defined not by human”
― Joseph Boot, The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society