Timothy E. Hartman

“*There are 6,000 manuscripts of the New Testament books in the original language. This is more than any other book in ancient history. Also, the copies we have of the originals are earlier than any other book in ancient history.12 * The authors of the New Testament books were eyewitnesses to Jesus of Nazareth. *All the copies of those books say 99 percent the same thing. The small percentage of difference is mostly in punctuation or differences in the way things were written in Greek. *All the Apostles were murdered for their faith in Jesus. Just to make this point as heavy as possible: it was faith in a first-century Jewish man who claimed to be God whom they saw rise from the dead, and who fulfilled prophecies about Himself written hundreds of years before He was physically born. If it’s fake, then it sounds like hundreds of people were insane at the same time about the same person. People don’t usually hallucinate well in groups. *Where’s His body? Jesus of Nazareth is one of the most famous people who has ever walked the earth. One of the main tenets of His followers is that He physically rose from the dead. If this didn’t happen, where is His body? It would have been pretty easy for the Roman or Jewish leaders to squash this hoax. All they had to do was go and get Him out of the grave and show Him to everyone!”
― James Boccardo, Unsilenced: How to Voice the Gospel

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” said Alice. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat. “We’re all mad here.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox

“I don’t understand it,” he said. “We would welcome them if they came. And they must know we are here. You can’t miss the big white columns out front.” “Perhaps,” I said with trepidation, “your church might go into the community instead of expecting them to come to you.” “Nah,” he said with a hint of indignation. “They’re not interested in us. If this church dies, it will be because of the community.”
― Thom S. Rainer, Anatomy of a Revived Church: Seven Findings of How Congregations Avoided Death

“When I pray, I talk to God, but when I read the Bible, God is talking to me; and it is really more important that God should speak to me than that I should speak to Him.”
― Dwight L. Moody, How to Study the Bible