The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
RAVI ZACHARIASOur sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.
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There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
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When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.
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God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.
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There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.
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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 you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.
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When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.
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The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.
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But life’s joys are only joys if they can be shared.
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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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Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is vast, but it is also imperative that we be willing to follow the example of Jesus and meet the need.
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Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.
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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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To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.
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It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
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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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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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What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
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If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
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Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
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The purpose of prayer and of God’s call in your life isn’t to make you number one in the world’s eyes but to make Him number one in your life.
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To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge
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Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
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Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
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Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.
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I 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.
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