Top 280 Ravi Zacharias Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

2. “Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.”

— Ravi Zacharias

3. “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

4. “What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.”

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Ravi Zacharias

6. “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

7. “The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.”

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Ravi Zacharias

9. “The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!”

— Ravi Zacharias

10. “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

11. “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

12. “Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.”

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Ravi Zacharias

14. “Respect for the right of another to be wrong does not mean that the wrong is right.”

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Ravi Zacharias

16. “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

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

— Ravi Zacharias

18. “Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.”

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Ravi Zacharias

20. “Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.”

— Ravi Zacharias

21. “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

22. “Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.”

— Ravi Zacharias

23. “The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.”

— Ravi Zacharias

24. “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

25. “Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.”

— Ravi Zacharias

26. “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

27. “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

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

— Ravi Zacharias

29. “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.”

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30. “In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility.”

— Ravi Zacharias

31. “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

32. “We all want Canaan without going through the wilderness.”

— Ravi Zacharias

33. “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

34. “Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.”

— Ravi Zacharias

35. “The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God’s forgiveness gives us a fresh start.”

— Ravi Zacharias

36. “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

37. “The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.”

— Ravi Zacharias

38. “The purpose of prayer and of God’s call in your life isn’t to make you number one in the world’s eyes but to make Him number one in your life.”

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39. “In today’s society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don’t know the difference anymore.”

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Ravi Zacharias

41. “An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.”

— Ravi Zacharias

42. “What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.”

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43. “You’ll never get to a person’s soul until you understand their hurts.”

— Ravi Zacharias

44. “One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God’s design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.”

— Ravi Zacharias

45. “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

46. “I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God’s call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks.”

— Ravi Zacharias

47. “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

48. “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

49. “Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.”

— Ravi Zacharias

50. “Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.”

— Ravi Zacharias