black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

Ravi Zacharias

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Difference Ideas Pretend Sacrifice Tolerance Truth
Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Atheist Contempt Exercise Intellectual
The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Difficult Enough Heart Old Ourselves Wonder
Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Commitment Myself Preference Right Understand
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 ZACHARIAS

Goodness Hold Live Temporary True World Yourself
Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, ‘Holy’ keeps the respect and reverence while ‘Father’ brings Him close & intimate.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Close Father God Intimacy Prayer Time Yourself
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.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Break Law Moral Process Try Yourself
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Correct Definition History
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.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Forgiveness Grace Hate Religion Stand Start World
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 ZACHARIAS

Activity Alone Faith God Regret Religious
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Hard Work Love Myself Vacation
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 ZACHARIAS

Change God Himself Life
If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Believe Moral Night Yourself
Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Definition Goodness Holy Life Moments
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.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Happiness Meaning Ourselves Pain
When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

God Person Place Religion Yourself
Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God’s presence during dark seasons of questioning.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Darkness God Live Presence Question Season
Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Respect Right Wrong
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!
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Big Death Difference Ethics Goodness Live People
A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Dangerous Feeling Mindset State
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.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Apology Fragment Greatness Love Need Person Willing
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.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Effort Fashion Hope Myself Rescue Service Voice
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.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Acceptance Offering Purpose Religious Strength
What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Need Oneself Religion Right Wrong
If God is the author of life, there must be a script.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Author God Life Scripture
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 ZACHARIAS

Call Eyes Life Oneself Prayer Purpose World Yourself
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.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Beyond God Grave Hope Kill Life Meaning Reason

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ravi Zacharias Quotes