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.
RAVI ZACHARIASThe Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.
More Ravi Zacharias Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You’ll never get to a person’s soul until you understand their hurts.
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Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
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Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right.
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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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It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
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Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
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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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What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
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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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Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.
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We talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually right.
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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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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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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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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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The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
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What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.
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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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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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An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.
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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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But life’s joys are only joys if they can be shared.
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