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 ZACHARIASThe 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 ZACHARIASThe 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASWhen 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASHaving the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God’s presence during dark seasons of questioning.
RAVI ZACHARIASI 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 ZACHARIASAn argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.
RAVI ZACHARIASAnyone 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASRedemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.
RAVI ZACHARIASWe have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
RAVI ZACHARIASHaving 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 ZACHARIASThe loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.
RAVI ZACHARIASThe 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 ZACHARIASLike 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASLove is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.
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.
RAVI ZACHARIASConviction 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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