Where’s the line between discernment and lack of faith in miracles?

This is a dilemma, and I think we should ask God to give us faith to believe Him, and skeptical only of some people’s claims, but not of God’s power or the fact that He sometimes miraculously intervenes. We need discernment, but not skepticism and certainly not cynicism.

Faith and Evidence

“Give Me Proof!”

Late one autumn, I drove through Seattle, Washington, on my way to a men’s retreat. I happened to pick up a local radio talk show host who pontificated on organized religion, ridiculing the narrow-minded and uneducated bigots that would dare to embrace Christianity.

“Christianity is just a collection of ancient pagan myths that the early church pilfered,” he exclaimed. “There is no evidence any of these miracles really happened. It’s just wishful thinking by people who need a psychological crutch to get through their painful, meaningless lives.”

Then he threw down the gauntlet. “I challenge ...

C. S. Lewis on the Christian Life…

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of ...