There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
RAVI ZACHARIASAtheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.
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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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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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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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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 biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!
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Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.
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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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The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
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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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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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We have to find the back door to peoples’ hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
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Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.
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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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We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
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Our 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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When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
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Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.
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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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When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.
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Truth by definition excludes.
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A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.
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If God is the author of life, there must be a script.
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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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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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Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.
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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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