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Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.

Ravi Zacharias

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
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Definition Goodness Holy Life Moments
If God is the author of life, there must be a script.
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Author God Life Scripture
The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God’s forgiveness gives us a fresh start.
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Forgiveness Grace Hate Religion Stand Start World
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
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Correct Definition History
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.
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Demand God Himself Intellectual Man Need Refusal Rejection
If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
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Believe Moral Night Yourself
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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Commitment Myself Preference Right Understand
You’ll never get to a person’s soul until you understand their hurts.
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Hurt Person Soul Understand Yourself
My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.
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Effort Fashion Hope Myself Rescue Service Voice
The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil itself.
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Compulsion Evil Existence Law Moral
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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Book Education Learning Life Situation Tough Yourself
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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Acceptance Day Journey Life Person Process Unique Willing Yourself
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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Difference Ideas Pretend Sacrifice Tolerance Truth
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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Emotion Love Question Willing Yourself
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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Call Eyes Life Oneself Prayer Purpose World Yourself
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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Discipline Eyes Focus Follow Imagination Material Raw

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