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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.

Ravi Zacharias

The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
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Correct Definition History
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
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Believe Ourselves Right Thinking
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
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
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
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
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Death Justice Philosophy Truth
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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Betrayal Ignorance Oneself Religion Value View Worth
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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Acceptance Day Journey Life Person Process Unique Willing Yourself
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
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Flatter God Humble Humility
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
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Book Education Learning Life Situation Tough Yourself
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
Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right.
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Respect Right Wrong
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
The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
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Absence God Man Presence Purity
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
You’ll never get to a person’s soul until you understand their hurts.
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Hurt Person Soul Understand Yourself
If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
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Believe Moral Night Yourself
When 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.
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Condition Heart Human Jealous Lust See Sin
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
Truth by definition excludes.
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Definition One Liner 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 mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.
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Dance Grave Heaven Laughter Oneself See
An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.
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Argument Doubt Holy Truth
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
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
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
Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can.
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Emotion Love Question Willing Yourself

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