Top 100 Ravi Zacharias Quotes
#1. Jesus spoke in parables not only to disclose truth but also to disclose the heart of the listener, to see how much that listener wanted to pursue the truth. - Ravi Zacharias, "Reaching the Happy Thinking Pagan
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#2. Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance with other religions.
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#3. Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.
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#4. 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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#5. You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.
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#6. Religion has a checkered history, and some of it is reprehensible. An
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#7. What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too." Indian
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#8. 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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#9. One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.
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#11. 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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#12. We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about.
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#13. sexuality is sacred, and using it for amusement brings diminishing returns.
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#14. The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes.
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#15. The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.
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#16. I think the media plays into the hands of false induction, genuine seduction taking place, wrong deductions, and the inevitable reductions. That's the way and the path of the visual.
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#18. You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day.
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#19. A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.
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#20. One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.
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#21. 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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#22. The reality is that if religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth,
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#23. Sacrilege is often defined as taking something that belongs to God and using it profanely. But there is a bigger sacrilege we commit all the time. That is to take something and give it to God when it means absolutely nothing to us.
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#25. 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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#26. I do not believe for a moment that the Scriptures are against wealth. But the warning to those who make wealth their pursuit is a stern reality. Wealth must be processed through a philosophy of life that is greater than wealth itself. If not, it shapes the mind for bitter disappointments.
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#27. Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.
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#28. In some countries you love your neighbors, and in others you eat them.
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#29. Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
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#30. The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media.
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#31. Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.
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#32. In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing it.
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#33. In Christian engagement, the goal is to win the person
who is of the other worldview - not to destroy the person.
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#34. What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
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#35. 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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#36. It is a self-evident truth that a person who truly prays and seeks God's wisdom in life recognizes the sovereignty of God and is committed to seeking God's wisdom in life's important choices.
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#37. 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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#38. Any nation that neglects teaching the sacredness of life and the family does so at its own peril. Any nation that sanctions the removal of God's boundaries will destroy its own.
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#39. 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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#40. Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right
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#41. Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.
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#42. Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.
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#43. There 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.
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#44. We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.
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#45. 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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#47. Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.
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#48. The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to
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#49. ...they're here for a moment and then gone. At best they have "liftoff" power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.
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#51. 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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#52. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive. Worldviews
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#53. God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes
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#54. I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.
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#55. Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.
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#56. Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
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#57. You 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.
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#58. In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.
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#59. Life without God is ultimately life without any point of reference for meaning other than what one gives it at the time.
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#61. Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed,
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#62. 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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#63. What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.
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#64. Just as strength is a man's charm, so charm is a woman's strength.
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#65. It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.
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#66. Philosopher William Lane Craig reminds us that an infinite regress of causes is like trying to jump out of a bottomless pit. How do you start if you never reach the bottom? On the other hand, one might well ask, if every birth is a rebirth, what kamma was paid for in his first birth?
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#67. 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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#68. We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
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#69. Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
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#70. Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.
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#71. Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.
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#72. Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.
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#73. The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.
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#74. So do not fear the struggle; rather, embrace it. Embrace it in the knowledge that the Grand Weaver will take all of your struggles, questions, disappointments, and fears and use them to build your faith and increasingly make you into a man or woman who looks like Jesus Christ.
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#75. His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human.
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#76. 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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#77. A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing.
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#78. Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.
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#79. 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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#80. Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
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#81. The world was made for the body. The body was made for the soul. And the soul was made for God.
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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.
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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. Isn't it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out?
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#89. Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.
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#90. 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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#91. I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.'
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#92. If God is the author of life, there must be a script.
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#93. You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The
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#94. To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge
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#95. Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one's own individuality is power in the hands of a fool.
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#96. 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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#97. The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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