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
RAVI ZACHARIAS
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Ravi Zacharias82 quotes“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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Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, ‘Holy’ keeps the respect and reverence while ‘Father’ brings Him close & intimate.
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Ravi ZachariasRavi 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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Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias 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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Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias 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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Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias 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!
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
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