If God is the author of life, there must be a script. Ravi Zacharias More Quotes by Ravi Zacharias More Quotes From Ravi Zacharias Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process. Ravi Zacharias hurt law trying 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. Ravi Zacharias halos tolerance simple Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. Ravi Zacharias what-is-life atheist answers 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. Ravi Zacharias suffering evil giving We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded. Ravi Zacharias heart doors religion Truth by definition excludes. Ravi Zacharias definitions Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness. Ravi Zacharias study humility answers Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave. Ravi Zacharias morality atheist reason One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it. Ravi Zacharias merit forgiveness heaven You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live. Ravi Zacharias contrast trying world I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones. Ravi Zacharias kind men memories Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining. Ravi Zacharias holiness defining moments An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth. Ravi Zacharias spirit doubt may The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder. Ravi Zacharias enough wonder heart Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right Ravi Zacharias doe mean There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth. Ravi Zacharias unique christian jesus The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs. Ravi Zacharias dancing laughing heaven We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live. Ravi Zacharias human-rights rights people 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. Ravi Zacharias essentials love-is jesus When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold. Ravi Zacharias redemption purpose hands
