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Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.

Ravi Zacharias

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
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
We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
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Discuss Human Live People Right
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
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
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Difficult Failure Success
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
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
But life’s joys are only joys if they can be shared.
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Happiness Joy Life Stare Yourself
If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
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Believe Moral Night Yourself
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
When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
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Moral Ourselves Politics Talk
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
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
When 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.
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Generation Monster Satisfaction Secularism Shame 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
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
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Believe Ourselves Right Thinking
Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
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Definition Goodness Holy Life Moments
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
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Author Destiny Discover Greatness Yourself
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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Forgiveness Grace Hate Religion Stand Start World
God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.
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Alone Enough Faith God Himself Impossible Reason World
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
We talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually right.
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Oneself Right Talk
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
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to– ironically-fait h!
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Assumption Atheist Evidence Natural Philosophy Willing 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
Truth by definition excludes.
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Definition One Liner Truth
If God is the author of life, there must be a script.
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Author God Life Scripture

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