Quotes from Ravi Zacharias

In some countries you love your neighbors, and in others you eat them.

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without the emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

The denial of Christ has less to do with facts and more to do with the bent of what a person is prejudiced to conclude.

The love of God shows us that God alone bridges the distance between him and us, enabling us to see this world through Calvary.

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

Isn't it ironic that when Islam is in a position of power, Islamic beliefs are forced on everyone, and that when atheism has the upper hand, atheistic beliefs are enforced on everyone? Only in Christianity is the privilege given both to believe and to disbelieve without any enforcement.

The denial of an objective moral law based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God results ultimately in the denial of evil itself.

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it.

Let your devotional life be the beacon that guides you through the tough terrain you will face.

In short, wonder is captured in one word—worship. When we have learned what worship is,we have experienced what wonder is. Worship is a personal thing before it goes public. It is an individual thing before it is part of a community. It is a disciplined thing before it is natural.

G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder.

Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you will to love somebody, you can. - Ravi Zacharias' brother

Any nation that neglects teaching the sacredness of life and the family does so at its own peril. Any nation that sanctions the removal of God's boundaries will destroy its own.

His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human.

the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.

Denying the existence of God leads us to preposterous conclusions so that, in the end, the amoral world of the skeptic who simply cannot explain good is worse than the world of the theist who has an explanation for evil.

Our society is walking through a maze of cultural land mines and the heaviest price is exacted as we send our children on ahead.

To the young woman I say, This is the moment in your life when he who is wooing you will be at his kindest. And if you do not see kindness in the man you are dating, beware! For the partnership you are looking for will be nourished and nurtured only on the basis of a love that is not arrogant or prideful, but kind.

When we have overcome absence with phone calls, winglessness with airplanes, summer heat with air-conditioning—when we have overcome all these and much more besides, then there will abide two things with which we must cope: the evil in our hearts and death.

Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's" (v. 15). This verse is the middle verse of the Old Testament and rightly so, for it gives the assurance that when we trust in God He will fight for us. The battle is not ours; it is His.

sexuality is sacred, and using it for amusement brings diminishing returns.

Many pray for the right partner but cease to pray for the right union--that they be one as Jesus and the Father are one and so experience the full measure of His joy in the relationship.

For communication to be effective, especially in matters as life-defining as the gospel message, truth and relevance are the two indispensable wings on which it is borne.

Marriage brings face to face two people committed to God whose face is distinctively revealed in each as they see each other in the light of God, shining on each countenance. God brought them close to each other because each was the other's answer from God, to rescue them from being alone.