You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts. Ravi Zacharias More Quotes by Ravi Zacharias More Quotes From Ravi Zacharias I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny. I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive. Ravi Zacharias destiny knowing wish Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us. Ravi Zacharias flattering able humble If God is the author of life, there must be a script. Ravi Zacharias religious god life I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full. Ravi Zacharias pleasure pain doe To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer. Ravi Zacharias want Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again. Ravi Zacharias biblical people world In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them. Ravi Zacharias devil atheist book These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too. Ravi Zacharias christian culture moving We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness. Ravi Zacharias wilderness want There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you. Ravi Zacharias priorities heart needs When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do. Ravi Zacharias life-is want jesus When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied. Ravi Zacharias appetite shame generations Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning. Ravi Zacharias christian dark inspirational God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone. Ravi Zacharias reason impossible world The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty. Ravi Zacharias exhausted people world Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing. Ravi Zacharias command-not feelings love-is The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something. Ravi Zacharias purity men jesus Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive. Ravi Zacharias doe people jesus 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 emotion ifs love-is Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways, remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one guessed was even there. That is why the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant, but an expression of a basic fact in human experience that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God. Ravi Zacharias passion expression mean
