Top 100 Ravi Zacharias Quotes
#1. Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.
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#2. In his play "Long Day's Journey into Night, " Eugene O'Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her life: "None of us can help the things life has done to us. They are done before you realize it and once they are done, they make you do other things, until at
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#3. sexuality is sacred, and using it for amusement brings diminishing returns.
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#5. The resulting inability or even desire to reason and think through an idea logically is demonstrated by one-liners such as "I'm not into 'isms.
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#6. I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question.
Tell me," I said.
You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.
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#7. Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.
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#8. Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
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#9. What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
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#10. Of all the enterprises in which the human heart engages, none lends itself more to abuse and manipulation than the activities of religion. For here, sacrifice and greed can meet in the most trusting and exploiting context.
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#11. A solemn reminder not to make our goal in life one of sheer material pursuit. The allurement is great, and the disappointments are proportionate.
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#12. Faith is a thing of the mind. If you do not believe that God is in control and has formed you for a purpose, then you will flounder on the high seas of purposelessness, drowning in the currents and drifting further into nothingness.
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#13. Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right
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#14. Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There's no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.
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#16. Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.
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#17. By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.
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#18. Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.
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#20. Many pray for the right partner but cease to pray for the right union--that they be one as Jesus and the Father are one and so experience the full measure of His joy in the relationship.
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#21. Just as strength is a man's charm, so charm is a woman's strength.
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#22. It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.
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#23. We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
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#24. Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
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#25. His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human.
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#26. How have we come to a place in society where millions of babies can be slaughtered and disposed of in the name of progress? Shocking but real.
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#27. Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
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#28. A friend asked the author,If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know?
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#29. Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised.
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#30. I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e., living without God, if consistently carried through, will
have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense
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#31. You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The
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#32. For communication to be effective, especially in matters as life-defining as the gospel message, truth and relevance are the two indispensable wings on which it is borne.
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#33. As much as that retrospective look troubles us, however, it makes for a fascinating confirmation that without God, the thing never would have happened.
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#34. All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.
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#35. We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.
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#36. I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
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#37. Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.
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#38. 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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#39. In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.
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#40. God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross
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#41. The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?
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#43. 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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#45. When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.
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#46. Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.
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#47. The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.
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#48. In our human imagination, we so often perceive our Heroes to be something larger than life. We exalt them in ways that do them a disservice ... we convince ourselves that they are or were something essentially different than the rest of us.
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#49. The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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#50. To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
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#51. Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God.
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#52. The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.
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#53. When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
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#54. WONDER IS ONE OF THOSE "POSSESSIONS" THAT NEEDS DISCIPLINED GUARDING AND THOUGHTFUL GUIDING.
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#55. What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love.
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#57. You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.
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#58. Ask without pettiness Being before doing Convictions without compromise Discipline without dreariness Ask
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#59. Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.
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#60. A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being.
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#61. 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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#63. This is why Jesus challenged the notion that more evidence would have generated more faith. George Macdonald said years ago that to give truth to him who does not love the truth is to only give more reasons for misinterpretation.
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#64. Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle.
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#65. The simplistic solutions of Deepak Chopra cannot stand against the lofty and deep teachings of Jesus Christ. Only in His answers will we find the ultimate hope for the human heart.
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#66. Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.
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#67. No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.
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#68. When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.
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#69. The 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.
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#70. The worldview of the Christian faith is simple enough. God has put enough into this world to make faith in him a most reasonable thing. But he has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason alone. The
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#71. Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.
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#72. The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
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#73. An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
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#74. 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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#75. ...monotony finds no relief in adding variety or changing our attitude about it. Activity does not create meaning; it is the other way around.
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#76. Unsuspecting people make a fatal mistake when they give their allegiance to a system of thought by focusing on its benefits while they ignore its systemic contradictions.
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#78. Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's" (v. 15). This verse is the middle verse of the Old Testament and rightly so, for it gives the assurance that when we trust in God He will fight for us. The battle is not ours; it is His.
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#79. I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.
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#80. We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
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#81. But you know, General, Jesus never came to establish a government upon the people by force. He did not even talk about political systems. He came to rule in the hearts of people, and not by the establishment of political power. He asks to live in you, not to control your state.
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#82. Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.
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#83. Sometimes religion can be the greatest roadblock to true spirituality. The
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#84. The 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.
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#85. Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can't we see his real message?
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#86. Conviction 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.
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#87. The components of gratitude and truth, love and hope bring the realization of wonder. The disciplines of study, of reading and reflecting, of dialoguing in depth and praying with belief sustain the wonder.
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#88. Isn't it ironic that when Islam is in a position of power, Islamic beliefs are forced on everyone, and that when atheism has the upper hand, atheistic beliefs are enforced on everyone? Only in Christianity is the privilege given both to believe and to disbelieve without any enforcement.
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#89. Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
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#90. 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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#91. It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives.
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#92. 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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#93. G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder.
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#94. Marriage brings face to face two people committed to God whose face is distinctively revealed in each as they see each other in the light of God, shining on each countenance. God brought them close to each other because each was the other's answer from God, to rescue them from being alone.
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#95. Sartre went so far as to say that the only question he could not answer was why he did not commit suicide.
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#96. Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do ... ' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.
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#97. If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
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#98. Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.
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#99. Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.
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#100. God doesn't respond because someone opens up some new insight for Him. No. In persistent, fervent prayer, God prepares the soil of one's heart to make room for the seed of His answer, from which will flower an alignment with His will.
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