Ravi Zacharias

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You can't take treasured beliefs from the past and mock them.
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Collection: Past
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It can be frustrating to see how society has taken the sacred out of everything.
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Collection: Taken
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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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Collection: Believe
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The questions of today's average young person, who is the product of America's intellectual bastions, have been virtually unaddressed by the church.
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Collection: Average
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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.
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Collection: Long
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Today there is no greater force in the molding of the North American mind than the invasion of the imagination by the visual media.
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Collection: Media
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In churches, we live with the danger of one-way verbal traffic.
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Collection: Church
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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.
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Collection: Mistake
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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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Collection: Two
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What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
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Collection: Believe
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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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Collection: Heart
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It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.
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Collection: Friday
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The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not merely stacking the deck; he is losing at his own game.
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Collection: Games
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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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Collection: Reading
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Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right
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Collection: Jesus
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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-- ironically-fait h!
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Collection: Atheist
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Wonder is retained by wise pondering.
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Collection: Wise
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Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.
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Collection: Essence
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Isn't it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out?
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Collection: Russia
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Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate.
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Collection: Father
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History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
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Collection: Thinking
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The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life
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Collection: Journey
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The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.
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Collection: Jesus
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The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.
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Collection: Law
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Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains, turn our backs on Jesus, and blame a thousand tyrannies- but we never come to terms with the source of the problem deep within the heart and inclination of every human being.
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Collection: Jesus
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The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.
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Collection: Home
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The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start.
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Collection: Forgiveness
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But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.
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Collection: Joy
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While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.
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Collection: Block
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Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.
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Collection: Mean
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Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.
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Collection: God
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Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.
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Collection: Spiritual
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We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.
- Ravi Zacharias
Collection: Thinking