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 ZACHARIASTo 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.
More Ravi Zacharias Quotes
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History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
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Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.
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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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The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.
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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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Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.
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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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We talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually right.
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Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.
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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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If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
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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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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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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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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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