Quotes from Cornelius Van Til

He [Christ] came to bring peace, to be sure, but the peace that He came to bring must be built upon the complete destruction of the power of darkness.

The only proof for the existence of God is that without God you couldn't prove anything.

When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless

Every fact in this world, the God of the Bible claims, has His stamp indelibly engraved upon it.

You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.

If the God of Christianity exists, the evidence for His existence is abundant and plain so that it is both unscientific and sinful not to believe in Him.

For what you have really done in your handling of the evidence for belief in God, is to set yourself up as God. You have made the reach of your intellect, the standard of what is possible or not possible. You have thereby virtually determined that you intend never to meet a fact that points to God. Facts, to be facts at all—facts, that is, with decent scientific and philosophic standing—must have your stamp instead of that of God upon them as their virtual creator.

If it does not appear reasonable to you, it is reasonable for you, to believe in God.

When on the created level of existence man thinks God's thoughts after him, that is, when man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge. When man thinks thus he thinks as a covenant creature should wish to think.