The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.
RAVI ZACHARIASI have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.
More Ravi Zacharias Quotes
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When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite… never satisfied.
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Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
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Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it’s your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.
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Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
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You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
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The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to– ironically-fait h!
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The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.
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Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God’s presence during dark seasons of questioning.
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What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
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When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God’s hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.
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Truth by definition excludes.
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Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.
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If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
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You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.
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Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God’s word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.
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Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
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In today’s society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don’t know the difference anymore.
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The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.
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Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.
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The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable… what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.
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You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.
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Whenever you try to break God’s moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others – all while proving His law in the process.
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We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
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The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
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The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God’s framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.
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What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.
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