John Clayton Quotes

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

 Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

 Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

 We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.