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 ZACHARIASIn 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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Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.
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We talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually 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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Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
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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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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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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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You’ll never get to a person’s soul until you understand their hurts.
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If God is the author of life, there must be a script.
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Truth by definition excludes.
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The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.
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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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Anyone 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.
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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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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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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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Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.
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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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The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.
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There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
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What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
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Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.
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When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.
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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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The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
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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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