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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.

Ravi Zacharias

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
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
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Difficult Failure Success
Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right.
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God Opinion Religion Right
Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right.
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Respect Right Wrong
The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.
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Empty Happiness Lonely People
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
Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.
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Beginning Complete Life Moments
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
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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Close Father God Intimacy Prayer Time Yourself
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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Creation Himself Human Image Reality
Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
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Alive Death Goodness Offering People
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
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Death Justice Philosophy Truth
To 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.
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God Himself Intention Preference
My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.
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Effort Fashion Hope Myself Rescue Service Voice
Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.
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Children Heaven Mom Ourselves Soul Stop
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
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
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Ideas Income Intellectual Money Word
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.
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Atheist Contempt Exercise Intellectual
Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.
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Dangerous Destruction Motivational Unity

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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