Ravi Zacharias
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.Collection: Children
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.Collection: Evil
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God has given us his law to aid us in guarding our souls, we see that the law is for our fulfillment, not for our limitation. The law reminds us that some things, some experiences, some relationships are sacred. When everything has been profaned, it is not just my freedom that has been lost- the loss is everyone's. God gave us the law to remind us of the sacredness of life, and our created legal systems only serve to remind us of the profane judgments we make.Collection: Loss
What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.Collection: Mistake
What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.Collection: Mean
Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.Collection: Exercise
Christian faith is exclusivistic. Christian faith lays claim upon our lives. The sanctity of life, what we do with a life, is very definitive in the Christian faith, what we do with sexuality, what we do with marriage, all of the fundamental questions of life have points of reference for answers, and people just have an aversion for that. That I think is the biggest reason they feel hostile towards the Christian faith.Collection: Christian
Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is vast, but it is also imperative that we be willing to follow the example of Jesus and meet the need.Collection: Jesus
Does that not sound odd to you? 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.Collection: Evil
The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.Collection: Jesus
Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.Collection: Ignorance
What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.Collection: Encouraging
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.Collection: Biblical
When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.Collection: Morality
The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture.Collection: Atheist
I have absolutely no doubt that if you are a praying Christian, your faith in God is what is carrying you, through both the good times and the hard times. However, if you are not a praying person, you are carrying your faith - you are trying to make your faith work for you apart from your source of power - and trying to carry the infinite is very exhausting.Collection: Christian
Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.Collection: Holiness
When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is only tyrannical if it is unbounded by goodness; holiness is only terrifying if it is untempered by grace; omniscience is only taunting if it is unaccompanied by mercy; and immutability is only torturous if there is no guarantee of goodwill.Collection: Gratitude
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.Collection: Laughter
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Causes
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?Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Prayer
The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.Collection: Loss
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.Collection: Humanity
Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Art
We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.Collection: Needs
If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.Collection: Looks
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.Collection: Bible
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.Collection: Skills
You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.Collection: Pain
Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.Collection: Together
God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the crossCollection: God
The church should provide a setting in which people can express their questions.Collection: People
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?"Collection: Way
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.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Heart
The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere.Collection: Suicide
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.Collection: Thinking
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?Collection: Christian
Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged.Collection: Discipline
Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.Collection: Moving
With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.Collection: Matter
Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.Collection: Reality
Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.Collection: Evil
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.Collection: Race