Quotes from Ravi Zacharias

In diminishing the other we devalue ourselves. Respect and dignity are an intrinsic part of valued relationships.

Spirituality does not give relevance to life; rather, truth gives relevance to spirituality.

It is not goodness we are called to, but worship.

taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?

Purpose is to life what the skeleton is to the body. The muscle may have strength, but it needs support and attachment.

What God wanted him [Job] to realize was that this same God who brought such pattern and beauty into a world He had fashioned out of nothing could also bring a pattern and beauty out of Job's brokenness. The universe is both complex and intelligible, and Job was reminded of that. There is intelligence behind the design,as there is also intelligence in helping us cope with suffering.

More than anything else, prayer enables you to see your own heart and brings you into alignment with God's heart.

The gospel of Jesus Christ was made synonymous with the methods that had devalued the truth, and people began to search elsewhere for answers.

Having lost this truth, what are we left with? Pornography and the cruel degradation of men, women, and children; death in the womb in the name of personal rights; the breakdown of the family for myriad reasons; the profanation of sex in our entertainment industry; violence in unprecedented proportions. One can only weep for the bleeding and the loss. In losing the high value that God has placed on the body, we are in a free fall, at the mercy of greed, cruelty, and lust.

If you are already a Christian, then you also have a task before you—to articulate the truth about Christ, to defend it, to share it, to preserve it, to pass it along to the next generations. As J. B. Phillips so powerfully renders 2 Corinthians 4:6: "God, who first ordered light to shine in darkness, has flooded our hearts with his light, so that we can enlighten men with the knowledge of the glory of God, as we see it in the face of Christ.

Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:31

the power of a lens is incredible.

When I returned to India for the first time after years of being gone, I wondered why I remembered those small rooms as being quite large. Was it because I didn't know any better? When Charles Dickens returned to his hometown and remarked that his city had changed, someone responded that it had not changed nearly as much as he had.

The world is in great need. There is so much that needs to be done.

Los hilos morales de una vida son para reflejar y honrar al Dios que servimos, no un medio para entrar al cielo.

We trivialize the body in our indulgences. We treat it as a means to other ends. But when death comes, we grasp at it and cling to it because it is all we have left.

Worship that is properly understood and properly given is co-extensive with life… It informs all of life, everything we do and everything we say and think. At its core it is the sense and service of God. Worship brings into confluence all the questions and answers that we have and do not have.

We are alone in a world where everything is nothing and we are part of the divine.

Making it to number one really means knowing where God wants you to be and serving him there with your best efforts. The goal, then, is to find the threads God has in place for you and to follow his plan for you with excellence.

We see through a glass darkly because all we want is to be comfortable.

who meets us existentially in our greatest need and gives us the confidence and comfort that we are beloved and not orphaned in this world.

Jesus is unique because in Him was no sin; He lived a perfect life. Even Pontius Pilate declared, "I find no fault in this man" (Luke 23:4 KJV ).

Ask without pettiness Being before doing Convictions without compromise Discipline without dreariness Ask

You see, there is an intellectual side to life but also a side to life where deep needs are experienced. We falsely think that one side deals with truth and the other with fantasy. Both need the truth, and the elimination of one by the other is not the world in which God intends for us to live.