More Than a Carpenter Quotes.

1. "The words Jesus Christ are not a first and last name; they are actually a name and a title. The name Jesus is derived from the Greek form of the name Jeshua or Joshua, meaning Jehovah-Savior or the Lord saves. The title Christ is derived from the Greek word for Messiah (or the Hebrew Mashiach, see Daniel 9:26) and means anointed one."
- Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter

2. "Christianity is not a religion. Religion is humans trying to work their way to God through good works. Christianity is God coming to men and women through Jesus Christ."
- Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter

3. "I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse."
- Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter

4. "We talked for almost an hour, and then I received one of the greatest thrills of my life. This man who was my father, this man who knew me too well for me to pull the wool over his eyes, looked at me and said, Son, if God can do in my life what I’ve seen him do in yours, then I want to give him the opportunity. I want to trust him as my Savior and Lord. I cannot imagine a greater miracle."
- Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter

5. "You can laugh at Christianity, you can mock it and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. I should say Jesus Christ changes lives. Christianity is not a religion; it’s not a system; it’s not an ethical idea; it’s not a psychological phenomenon. It’s a person. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives."
- Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter

6. "My Lord and my God!’ Thomas exclaimed. (John 20:26-28). Jesus accepted Thomas’s acknowledgment of him as God. He rebuked Thomas for his unbelief but not for his worship."
- Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter

7. "If one discards the Bible as unreliable historically, then he or she must discard all the literature of antiquity. No other document has as much evidence to confirm its reliability."
- Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter

8. "atheistic regimes, such as communist China, communist Russia, and Nazi Germany is more than one hundred million people.32 There is no close second place. David Berlinski, a secular Jew who received his PhD from Princeton University, believes that one of the main reasons for such atrocities is the absence of ultimate accountability: What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe and what the Gestapo did not believe . . . was that God was watching what they were"
- Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter

9. "The first to speak in court sounds right—until the cross-examination begins (Proverbs 18:17)."
- Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter

10. "Thomas Aquinas writes: There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning."
- Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter