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Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

Ravi Zacharias

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
Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.
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Atheist Contempt Exercise Intellectual
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
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
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
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
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
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
When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
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Moral Ourselves Politics Talk
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
Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
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Alive Death Goodness Offering People
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
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
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
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Difficult Failure Success
Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right.
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God Opinion Religion Right
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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Effort Fashion Hope Myself Rescue Service Voice
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
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
Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is vast, but it is also imperative that we be willing to follow the example of Jesus and meet the need.
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Apology Fragment Greatness Love Need Person Willing
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
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
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
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
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.
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Experience Life Lonely Moments Ultimate 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
Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
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Definition Goodness Holy Life Moments
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

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