Ravi Zacharias

Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it.

— Ravi Zacharias light

Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.

— Ravi Zacharias life

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into Gods hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

— Ravi Zacharias love

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

— Ravi Zacharias words

The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And thats why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If theres one word I would grab from all of that, its forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.

— Ravi Zacharias god

My premise is that the popular aphorism that all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.

— Ravi Zacharias religion

— Ravi Zacharias light

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

— Ravi Zacharias life

Success is more difficult to handle than failure.

— Ravi Zacharias success

The simplistic solutions of Deepak Chopra cannot stand against the lofty and deep teachings of Jesus Christ. Only in His answers will we find the ultimate hope for the human heart.

— Ravi Zacharias hope

I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around.

— Ravi Zacharias faith

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

— Ravi Zacharias god

— Ravi Zacharias love

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. Youve asked them, Ive asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?

— Ravi Zacharias life

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.

— Ravi Zacharias christian

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

— Ravi Zacharias words

Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.

— Ravi Zacharias faith

— Ravi Zacharias god

Jesus said, Greater things of these you shall do... Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

— Ravi Zacharias relationships

How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth.

— Ravi Zacharias jesus

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: Where did I come from? What is lifes 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 life

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

— Ravi Zacharias life

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 Ive seen again and again.

— Ravi Zacharias truth

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on Gods word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

— Ravi Zacharias god

We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.

— Ravi Zacharias wild

Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.

— Ravi Zacharias truth

Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of lifes struggle.

— Ravi Zacharias life

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

— Ravi Zacharias sin

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.

— Ravi Zacharias men

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that all religions are basically the same. If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be converted to another religion?

— Ravi Zacharias faith

Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.

— Ravi Zacharias love

The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media.

— Ravi Zacharias people

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous.

— Ravi Zacharias anger

Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moments revision exhaust the eternal.

— Ravi Zacharias life

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

— Ravi Zacharias religion

Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. Theres no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.

— Ravi Zacharias god

Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.

— Ravi Zacharias philosophy

By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.

— Ravi Zacharias time

When you say theres too much evil in this world you assume theres good. When you assume theres good, you assume theres such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but thats Who youre trying to disprove and not prove. Because if theres no moral Law Giver, theres no moral law. If theres no moral law, theres no good. If theres no good, theres no evil. What is your question?

— Ravi Zacharias world

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.

— Ravi Zacharias god

The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. Herein lies 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.

— Ravi Zacharias life

When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question Gods moral character, saying that he has chosen some to live and others to die on a whim; yet you say it is your moral right to choose whether the child within you should live or die. Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, its your moral right.

— Ravi Zacharias god

It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that ones private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nations moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? One of the most dangerous and terrifying trends in America today is the disregard for character as a central necessity in a leaders credentials. The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil.

— Ravi Zacharias philosophy

In todays society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people dont know the difference anymore.

— Ravi Zacharias people

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

— Ravi Zacharias hate

Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.

— Ravi Zacharias love

We talk so much about ones rights... so little about what is actually right.

— Ravi Zacharias right

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

— Ravi Zacharias religion

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 christianity

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining lifes purpose. Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.

— Ravi Zacharias life

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 religion

Truth by definition excludes.

— Ravi Zacharias truth

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 truth

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

— Ravi Zacharias god

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 god

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 you

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

— Ravi Zacharias god

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

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

— Ravi Zacharias love

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 religion

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

— Ravi Zacharias truth

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 god

The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.

— Ravi Zacharias people

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.

— Ravi Zacharias men

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 life

My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

— Ravi Zacharias hope

Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart.

— Ravi Zacharias art

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 love

Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.

— Ravi Zacharias religion

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 god

A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.

— Ravi Zacharias mind

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 love

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

— Ravi Zacharias god

The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is.

— Ravi Zacharias life

The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction.

— Ravi Zacharias children

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

— Ravi Zacharias people

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 god

Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right

— Ravi Zacharias respect

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 love

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 world

The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.

— Ravi Zacharias life

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 time

Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.

— Ravi Zacharias men

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 time

The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of Gods framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life

— Ravi Zacharias life

You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.

— Ravi Zacharias self

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 pain

Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of Gods presence during dark seasons of questioning.

— Ravi Zacharias god

We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.

— Ravi Zacharias people

Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.

— Ravi Zacharias god

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 Gods forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

— Ravi Zacharias truth

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.

— Ravi Zacharias love

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

— Ravi Zacharias life

In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.

— Ravi Zacharias life

How have we come to a place in society where millions of babies can be slaughtered and disposed of in the name of progress? Shocking but real.

— Ravi Zacharias society

Isnt it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out?

— Ravi Zacharias god

I am thoroughly convinced that when the last chapter of humanity is written, we will find that the implications of atheism, i.e., living without God, if consistently carried through, will have made life plainly unlivable within the limits of reason or even common sense

— Ravi Zacharias life

If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?

— Ravi Zacharias morality

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

— Ravi Zacharias life

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