Top 237 Quotes & Sayings by Ravi Zacharias - Page 4

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.

One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is possible to dress up and romanticize our bizarre experiments in social restructuring while disavowing truth or absolutes. But one dares not play such deadly games with the foundations of good thinking.

I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks.

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

The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.

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.

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.

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?

The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from truth. The task of apologetics is to carefully remove that hazardous material and keep it from igniting into a destructive fire. Once that is done, the way to the heart is always through the way of the Cross, God’s love for each and every one of us.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

As I see our world, I have never seen greater confusion, greater loss of meaning, greater uncertainty, and greater fear of what looms in front of us. Politics has gotten out of control everywhere. Nobody sees a mascot or a leader, and everyone wants to know what really lies ahead here.

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.

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.

We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when their questions are respectfully dealt with, many admit their vulnerability.

My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.

The church should provide a setting in which people can express their questions.

The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell.

Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.

If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.

For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.

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.

I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fatal hemorrhage. The system will never change because our starting point is flawed. The secular view of man can neither give the grandeur that God alone can give, nor can it see the evil within the human heart that God alone can reveal and cure, for atheism implicitly denudes each individual of the grand image God has imprinted upon His creation.

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

You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.

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.

We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.

Every religion at its core is exclusive.

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.

Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy.

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.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.

Today, sensitivities are at an all-time high - and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the years, but pluralism has given way to relativism.

Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.

Today there is no greater force in the molding of the North American mind than the invasion of the imagination by the visual media.

The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church.

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.

All religions do not point to God

Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

At the universities I visit, the exclusivity of Christ is challenged in every open forum - "How can you possibly talk about one God or one way when there are so many good options?"

It can be frustrating to see how society has taken the sacred out of everything.

Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.

In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.

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?

You can't take treasured beliefs from the past and mock them.

In India, there is a saying that you can touch your nose directly or you can touch your nose the long way around. You need to go the long way around to reach some people.

Even though the search for meaning is debunked today, the cries of the human heart can be smothered for only so long. In these yearnings, the search for significance and fulfillment continues.

Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged.

Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.

The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere.

You can easily substitute the intellect for true devotion. Devotion comes from the heart, and from the will. The intellect, you can cerebrally answer things, but you make a big mistake when that happens.

The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in life. He or she feels no need for anything transcendent.

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.