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.
RAVI ZACHARIASTo 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.
More Ravi Zacharias Quotes
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We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
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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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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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Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right.
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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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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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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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A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.
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An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.
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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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I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.
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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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Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
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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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When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
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