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Ravi Zacharias

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
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
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
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
If God is the author of life, there must be a script.
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Author God Life Scripture
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
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
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
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Death Justice Philosophy Truth
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
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
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
When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
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Moral Ourselves Politics Talk
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
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Difficult Failure Success
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
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
Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God’s word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.
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Activity Busy God Meditation Mystery Person Program Recognition Silence
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
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 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
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
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
We talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually right.
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Oneself Right Talk
When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.
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God Person Place Religion 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
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
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 by definition excludes.
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Definition One Liner Truth

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