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.
RAVI ZACHARIASMy 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASWhere 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASWe talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually right.
RAVI ZACHARIASDoes 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASHaving 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 ZACHARIASThe 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASWhen we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
RAVI ZACHARIASHaving the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God’s presence during dark seasons of questioning.
RAVI ZACHARIASTruth by definition excludes.
RAVI ZACHARIASYou 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASThe 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 ZACHARIASWhen 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASTo 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASWe cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
RAVI ZACHARIASGod 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 ZACHARIASWhat 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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