It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
RAVI ZACHARIASThe 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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What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
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The 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.
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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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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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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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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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Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.
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Whenever you try to break God’s moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others – all while proving His law in the process.
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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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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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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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If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
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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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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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When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God’s hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.
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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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I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.
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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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The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
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Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.
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We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
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There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
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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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We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
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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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Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God’s presence during dark seasons of questioning.
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