Friedrich Tholuck Quote

I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.


Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 137.


I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have...

I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have...

I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have...

I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have...