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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.

Ravi Zacharias

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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Doubt Greatness Live Myself Obstacle
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
The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.
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Acceptance Offering Purpose Religious Strength
Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
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Definition Goodness Holy Life Moments
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
If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
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Love Possession Truth
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.
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Creation Himself Human Image Reality
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
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Death Justice Philosophy Truth
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
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.
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Call Eyes Life Oneself Prayer Purpose World 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
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
When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.
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Condition Heart Human Jealous Lust See Sin
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.
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Priority Religious Right Yourself
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
To 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.
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God Himself Intention Preference
The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.
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Empty Happiness Lonely People
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

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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