Without the interpretation of the universe by man to the glory of God the whole world would be meaningless
Cornelius Van TilThe picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.
Cornelius Van TilIf one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point. Then he will have to seek an exhaustive understanding of reality. He will have to hold that if he cannot attain to such an exhaustive understanding of reality he has no true knowledge of anything at all. Either man must then know everything or he knows nothing. This is the dilemma that confronts every form of non-Christian epistemology
Cornelius Van TilHe [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.
Cornelius Van TilIt is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.
Cornelius Van TilThere are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.
Cornelius Van Til