Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God’s presence during dark seasons of questioning.
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 ZACHARIASWe talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually right.
RAVI ZACHARIASIf truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
RAVI ZACHARIASWe have to find the back door to peoples’ hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
RAVI ZACHARIASConviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.
RAVI ZACHARIASI 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 ZACHARIASThere are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.
RAVI ZACHARIASRespect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right.
RAVI ZACHARIASWe cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
RAVI ZACHARIASSuccess is more difficult to handle than failure.
RAVI ZACHARIASYou 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.
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.
RAVI ZACHARIASYou 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.
RAVI ZACHARIASEvery time you get on your knees and pray to God, ‘Holy’ keeps the respect and reverence while ‘Father’ brings Him close & intimate.
RAVI ZACHARIASA mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.
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.
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