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.
RAVI ZACHARIASHaving 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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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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It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
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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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When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
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The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
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We have to find the back door to peoples’ hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
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Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, ‘Holy’ keeps the respect and reverence while ‘Father’ brings Him close & intimate.
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We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
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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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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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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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Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
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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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When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite… never satisfied.
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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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