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If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

Ravi Zacharias

History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
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History Law Reminder Yourself
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
The purpose of prayer and of God’s call in your life isn’t to make you number one in the world’s eyes but to make Him number one in your life.
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Call Eyes Life Oneself Prayer Purpose World Yourself
Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.
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Answer Goal God Purpose Question Satisfaction Seek Truth Yourself
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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Boundary Destruction Ethics Existence Law Leadership Moral Yourself
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
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
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
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Difficult Failure Success
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
Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
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Commitment Myself Preference Right Understand
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
We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
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Believe Ourselves Right Thinking
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
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
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
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Ideas Income Intellectual Money Word
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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Darkness God Live Presence Question Season
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 older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.
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Difficult Enough Heart Old Ourselves Wonder
The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.
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Empty Happiness Lonely People
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
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
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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Generation Monster Satisfaction Secularism Shame Yourself
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
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
Truth by definition excludes.
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Definition One Liner Truth
Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right.
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Respect Right Wrong
Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right.
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God Opinion Religion Right

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