Quotes from Ravi Zacharias

You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The

What suffering teaches us is that three blessings flow from its tutelage: (1) the blessing of an amplified testimony, (2) the blessing of a fulfilled identity, and (3) the blessing of unshakable faith and strength that never drains away.

There is a difference between belief and conviction. A belief can become something that you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you.

To be able to accept the wonder and the marvel of one's own personality, however flawed or 'accidental,' and place it in and trust it to the hands of the One who made it, is one of the greatest achievements in life.

Without words life would be inexpressible. Even the best of emotions beg for a verbal expression. That is why the musician reaches not just to the melody but to the romance of language to bring harmony to life.

Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive. Worldviews

It took years to find out that the cry for openness is never what it purports to be. What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too.

A moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. This is the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

We have lost the shared meanings of pain, and so the shared meanings of victory become occasions for jealousy.

May I suggest that the challenge of Jesus' earthly ministry was to enable us to see the message so that the picture could be understood.

To be a human being is to be one who is fashioned in the image of God, who is the point of reference in all relationships.

Religions that attempt to keep the body sacred while denying the Creator's hand are in the same boat as skeptics who try to protect life while saying it is nothing more than matter.

A veces, quienes hemos sido bendecidos tan grandemente parecemos ser los menos capaces de ver la gracia de la mano de Dios sobre nosotros mismos.

All walls are not barriers. They may be there for a purpose.

La fel cum bondarul zboar? deÈ™i nu are o form? aerodinamic?, tot aÈ™a un om care îÈ™i aminteÈ™te ce înseamn? s? fii copil È™tie s? acorde raÈ›iunii È™i emoÈ›iei locul cuvenit, p?strând în acelaÈ™i timp ochii deschiÈ™i în faÈ›a miracolului lumii. Amintirile È™i visurile în care întrez?rim o f?râm? de mirare ne îndeamn? s? c?ut?m mai departe.

neither goodness nor love alone is the goal. It is reverence, and it must be chosen even when it is hard and costly. This kind of love is a choice to let the sanctity of life dictate the commitment of the will. This kind of reverential love can look upon suffering and see it beyond the clutches of time and through the victory of eternity.

In life's most severe tests of motives, there is a politician in each and every one of us.

For the first time, I felt my mind being stretched — and I loved it. I realized that thinking could be fun, and with that simple realization I was sent headlong into the lifelong discipline of reading. I

That is why God's great desire is that we see our hearts before Him as He does, recognizing that we are not qualified to make moral judgments apart from Him. Like Job, when we come to Him as Creator and Designer, Revealer and Comforter, Mediator and Savior, we find that He is also the Strengthener and Restorer. On the basis of what we know, we can trust His character for what we do not know.

wrongdoing has a way of robbing one even of common sense. Why

At a time in our cultural history when the West is looking more like the East and the East is covertly trying to emulate the West, this is much needed. Religions are making a revival, but often as a hybrid of western marketing techniques and eastern mythology—a devastating combination of seduction through media and mysticism.

Por eso, cuando participamos del pan y bebemos de la copa con otro ser humano, todo lo que nos divide queda superado por el amor que Dios tiene dentro de sí. Un hombre que deshonra a su esposa ha roto la comunión con Dios. Un hombre que deshonra a su prójimo ha roto la comunión con Dios. En suma, la comunión es tanto vertical como horizontal.

My experience at Trinity points up one big difference between Islam and Christianity: Islam shuns a critique of the Quran. If you ask the hard questions of the Quran, you risk being branded, and, in some cases, you even risk your life. The Christian, however, has always been willing to subject the Bible to the severest analysis and is able to come out, knowing that it can survive the blade of the skeptic.

All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance as if everything could be equally true. To deem all beliefs equally true is sheer nonsense for the simple reason that to deny that statement would also, then, be true. But if the denial of the statement is also true, then all religions are not true. In