Ravi Zacharias
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.Collection: Humble
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.Collection: Jesus
The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.Collection: Prayer
A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.Collection: Crush
God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.Collection: World
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.Collection: Destiny
Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.Collection: Redemption
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.Collection: Spiritual
One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.Collection: Biblical
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is.Collection: Atheist
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.Collection: Religion
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.Collection: Christ
For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Baby
The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the simple record of three years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.Collection: Jesus
It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow.Collection: Two
Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.Collection: Time
Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy.Collection: Grace
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?Collection: Wine
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.Collection: Humanity
Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring new wine into them. Our tendency is to start pouring the wine into skins that will only burst.Collection: Jesus
In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.Collection: Successful
What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.Collection: Winning
Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.Collection: Culture
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.Collection: Struggle
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.Collection: Dirty
Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.Collection: Ideas
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?Collection: Religious
What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love.Collection: Joy
The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Humility
Years ago I was asked this question: Do terrorists fear anything? I said, 'I suspect they would fear a morally strong America.' They would know that a morally strong America would not be dislodged. You can always appeal to a point of vulnerability which would break a people up. [Terrorists] don't fear so much the weaponry as the moral courage, and I think a morally strong America would be intimidating to them.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Trust
Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.Collection: Christian
In the gospel message, the beginning of change occurs in the heart of each individual. This heart change makes a difference in the home, then in the community, and ultimately in the nation- and in turn it shapes the future of a cultural ethos.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Love
My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.Collection: Goal
You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework.Collection: Evil
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.Collection: Availability
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Choices Made
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.Collection: Cutting
I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledgeCollection: Atheist
There is a danger when we give young people only a catalog of dos and don'ts. In these young minds, the gospel is not intellectually credible.Collection: People
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.Collection: Block
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.Collection: Defense