“Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable
areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some
very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal
with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to
control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that
the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that
Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.”
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
“We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“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.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?
― Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?
“What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“In the 1950s kids lost their innocence.
They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term ---the generation gap.
In the 1960s, kids lost their authority.
It was a decade of protest---church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it.
In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self.
Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion....It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference.
In the 1980s, kids lost their hope.
Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future.
In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world.
In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder
They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term ---the generation gap.
In the 1960s, kids lost their authority.
It was a decade of protest---church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it.
In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self.
Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion....It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference.
In the 1980s, kids lost their hope.
Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future.
In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world.
In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder
“There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“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.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows
“These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has
been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture
today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad
enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who
have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is
not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate
it too.”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my
commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.”
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
“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.”
― Ravi Zacharias
Tell me," I said.
You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.”
― Ravi Zacharias
“I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I
remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came
to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I
have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain
with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about
the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny. I came amid the
thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities. I remain
with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“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”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate...”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity,
there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human
worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater
purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design,
death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting.”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the
knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He
is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the
person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power
does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He
is.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.”
― Ravi Zacharias, The Real Face of Atheism
― Ravi Zacharias, The Real Face of Atheism
“Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine,
the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and
blushed." That sublime description could be reworked to explain each
one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken
body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the
Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to
multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who
called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they
might bear His footsteps?”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily
footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our
loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt
transactions.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God
“Truth by definition excludes.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.”
― Ravi Zacharias
― Ravi Zacharias
“Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose
the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“I 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 Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God
“Every other person who is at the heart of any religion has had
his or her beginning either in fancy or in fact. But nevertheless, there
is a beginning. Jesus' birth in Bethlehem was a moment preceded by
eternity. His being neither originated in time nor came about by the
will of humanity. The Author of time, who lived in the eternal, was made
incarnate in time that we might live with the eternal in view. In that
sense, the message of Christ was not the introduction of a religion, but
an introduction to truth about reality as God alone knows it. To deny
Jesus' message while pursuing spirituality is to conjure an imaginary
religion in an attempt to see heaven while sight is confined to the
earth. That is precisely what Jesus challenged when he said, "I have
come that [you] may have life" (John 10:10). His life spells living.
Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came
from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She
has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water.
She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God
Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with
questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a
life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The
disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we
can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be
satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled
by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a
mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can
life be truly fulfilling.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself
efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is
dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
