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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 Zacharias

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
Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.
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Activity Alone Faith God Regret Religious
A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.
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Dangerous Feeling Mindset State
When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.
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Change God Himself Life
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
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
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
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Difference Ideas Pretend Sacrifice Tolerance Truth
Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it’s your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.
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Death Decision God Live Silence Sound 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
What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.
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Beware Celebration Encourage Yourself
But life’s joys are only joys if they can be shared.
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Happiness Joy Life Stare Yourself
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
It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
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Fact God Religious Sin Volume
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
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
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
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
We have to find the back door to peoples’ hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
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Finding Guard Heart heavy People
Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God’s presence during dark seasons of questioning.
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Darkness God Live Presence Question Season
Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right.
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God Opinion Religion Right
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
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
History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
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History Law Reminder 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
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
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Difficult Failure Success
Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
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Definition Goodness Holy Life Moments
An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.
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Argument Doubt Holy Truth

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.

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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.

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