God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.
RAVI ZACHARIASWhen we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.
More Ravi Zacharias Quotes
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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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When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
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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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Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right.
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Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.
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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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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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If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
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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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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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We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
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You’ll never get to a person’s soul until you understand their hurts.
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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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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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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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