Top 280 Ravi Zacharias Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Grace misunderstood will always lead to jealousy.”

— Ravi Zacharias

52. “When we look into the human heart we see the lust, the greed, the hate, the pride, the anger, and the jealousies that are so destructive. This is at the heart of the human predicament, and the Scriptures call this condition sin.”

— Ravi Zacharias

53. “The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.”

— Ravi Zacharias

54. “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

55. “Truth by definition excludes.”

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

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57. “The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.”

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58. “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

59. “What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.”

— Ravi Zacharias

60. “What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love.”

— Ravi Zacharias

61. “The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.”

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62. “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28.”

— Ravi Zacharias

63. “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

64. “God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes.”

— Ravi Zacharias

65. “Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.”

— Ravi Zacharias

66. “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

67. “If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?”

— Ravi Zacharias

68. “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, it’s your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.”

— Ravi Zacharias

69. “Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.”

— Ravi Zacharias

70. “What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.”

— Ravi Zacharias

71. “Wonder is retained by wise pondering.”

— Ravi Zacharias

72. “What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate...”

— Ravi Zacharias

73. “When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.”

— Ravi Zacharias

74. “Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.”

— Ravi Zacharias

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

— Ravi Zacharias

76. “History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.”

— Ravi Zacharias

77. “It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.”

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78. “Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.”

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79. “Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God.”

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80. “The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.”

— Ravi Zacharias

81. “The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.”

— Ravi Zacharias

82. “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

83. “Success is more difficult to handle than failure.”

— Ravi Zacharias

84. “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

85. “Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.”

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

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87. “Time isn’t just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.”

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88. “For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.”

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89. “It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life’s heartfelt transactions.”

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90. “The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to – ironically-fait h!”

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91. “It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.”

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92. “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.”

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93. “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.”

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94. “Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.”

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95. “Jesus and Buddha cannot both be right.”

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96. “God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross.”

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97. “My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.”

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98. “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

99. “The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.”

— Ravi Zacharias

100. “The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not merely stacking the deck; he is losing at his own game.”

— Ravi Zacharias