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Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right.

Ravi Zacharias

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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Commitment Myself Preference Right Understand
But life’s joys are only joys if they can be shared.
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Happiness Joy Life Stare Yourself
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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Discipline Eyes Focus Follow Imagination Material Raw
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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Difference Goodness People Society
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
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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Need Oneself Religion Right Wrong
What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.
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Beware Celebration Encourage Yourself
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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Dance Grave Heaven Laughter Oneself See
Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right.
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God Opinion Religion Right
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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Distribution Home Primary Purpose Reflection
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
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
The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
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Absence God Man Presence Purity
The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable… what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.
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Children Civilization Direction Lost Ourselves Ultimate
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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Goodness Hold Live Temporary True World Yourself
Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
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Alive Death Goodness Offering 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
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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Betrayal Ignorance Oneself Religion Value View Worth
Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.
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Answer Goal God Purpose Question Satisfaction Seek Truth Yourself
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
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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Change Conscience Essence Opinion 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.
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Beyond God Grave Hope Kill Life Meaning Reason
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
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
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
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Believe Ourselves Right Thinking
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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Creation Definition Demonstration God Hold Message Purpose Transformation
Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right.
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Respect Right Wrong

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