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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.

Ravi Zacharias

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
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Alive Death Goodness Offering People
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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Acceptance Day Journey Life Person Process Unique Willing Yourself
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
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Author Destiny Discover Greatness Yourself
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.
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Difficult Enough Heart Old Ourselves Wonder
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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Demand God Himself Intellectual Man Need Refusal Rejection
Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it’s your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.
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Death Decision God Live Silence Sound Yourself
We talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually right.
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Oneself Right Talk
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
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Correct Definition History
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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Change God Himself Life
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
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Hard Work Love Myself Vacation
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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Break Law Moral Process Try Yourself
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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Book Education Learning Life Situation Tough Yourself
You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.
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Boundary Destruction Ethics Existence Law Leadership Moral Yourself
It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
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Fact God Religious Sin Volume
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
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Flatter God Humble Humility
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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Carry God Heart Need Priority World Yourself
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.
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Children Heaven Mom Ourselves Soul Stop
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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Happiness Meaning Ourselves Pain
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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Apology Fragment Greatness Love Need Person Willing
You’ll never get to a person’s soul until you understand their hurts.
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Hurt Person Soul Understand Yourself
The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.
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Empty Happiness Lonely People
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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Compulsion Evil Existence Law Moral
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.
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Dangerous Destruction Motivational Unity
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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Beautiful Blessing Creation God Himself Wonder
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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Big Death Difference Ethics Goodness Live People
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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Emotion Love Question Willing Yourself
When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
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Moral Ourselves Politics Talk

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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