Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
RAVI ZACHARIAS
RAVI ZACHARIAS
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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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Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias 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.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias 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.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias 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.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias 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
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias 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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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace – it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world.
Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
Erica JongErica Jong I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
Nadine GordimerNadine Gordimer To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
Emile DurkheimEmile Durkheim The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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