Top 280 Ravi Zacharias Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Perder la fe es espantoso porque nos despoja de la esperanza e incluso amenaza el amor.”

— Ravi Zacharias

202. “The game is played not to protect the rules; rather, the rules are made to protect the game. That.”

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203. “The Bible offers a beautiful passage from the heart of one who knew much, suffered much, endured much, and wrote much: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceivedwhat God has prepared for those who love him.” 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9.”

— Ravi Zacharias

204. “Chesterton says, in essence, that there is a dislocation of humility in our times. We have become more confident in who we are and less in what we believe. Our pride has moved us from the organ of conviction to the organ of ambition, when it is intended to be the other way around. In short, our confidence should be in our message and not in ourselves.”

— Ravi Zacharias

205. “In his play “Long Day’s Journey into Night, ” Eugene O’Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her life: “None of us can help the things life has done to us. They are done before you realize it and once they are done, they make you do other things, until at.”

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206. “Tragically, I cannot help but wonder if we have now abandoned truth to return to the palace, and rather than sitting alone under a tree waiting for enlightenment, we gravitate to mass entertainment under lights that cater to mass ignorance.”

— Ravi Zacharias

207. “The world was made for the body, the body was made for the soul, and the soul was made for God. When that discovery is made and the soul is restored in a disfigured culture, we find the greatest treasure of all–and it is nearer to us than we realize.”

— Ravi Zacharias

208. “Let your devotional life be the beacon that guides you through the tough terrain you will face.”

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209. “That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God’s strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.”

— Ravi Zacharias

210. “So do not fear the struggle; rather, embrace it. Embrace it in the knowledge that the Grand Weaver will take all of your struggles, questions, disappointments, and fears and use them to build your faith and increasingly make you into a man or woman who looks like Jesus Christ.”

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211. “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. There’s no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.”

— Ravi Zacharias

212. “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

213. “God doesn’t respond because someone opens up some new insight for Him. No. In persistent, fervent prayer, God prepares the soil of one’s heart to make room for the seed of His answer, from which will flower an alignment with His will.”

— Ravi Zacharias

214. “Young dreams may be wild ones, but they are never corrected by ridiculing them. They must be steered by a loving voice that has earned the right to be heard, not one enforced by means of power. This is a very difficult lesson for parents to learn. And as cultures lose their restraining power, there will be greater need for mutual love and respect between parents and children if a relationship of trust is to be built, rather than banking on authority because of position.”

— Ravi Zacharias

215. “Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one’s conscience.”

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216. “I do not believe for a moment that the Scriptures are against wealth. But the warning to those who make wealth their pursuit is a stern reality. Wealth must be processed through a philosophy of life that is greater than wealth itself. If not, it shapes the mind for bitter disappointments.”

— Ravi Zacharias

217. “Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone’s life the joy you want it to be.”

— Ravi Zacharias

218. “Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, “The conscious water saw its Master and blushed.” That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?”

— Ravi Zacharias

219. “If musicians and artists have no absolutes, they end up caring more about the way the thing is told than about the thing itself, and they slide deeper and deeper till it’s their means rather than the ends that matter.”

— Ravi Zacharias

220. “Presence, relationship, holiness, trust, beauty, goodness, peace – all were present in the relationship between God and humanity at creation. By playing God and redefining good and evil according to our own discretion, we introduced into the human spirit disobedience, absence, severance, distrust, evil, and restlessness.”

— Ravi Zacharias

221. “God has an appointment with each of us, and it is critical that every man and woman know this. He will stop our steps when it is not our time, and He will lead us when it is. This is a reassuring truth to know for every believer, and a necessary trust for anyone who ministers in areas of great risk.”

— Ravi Zacharias

222. “The world was made for the body. The body was made for the soul. And the soul was made for God.”

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223. “David talked often about how discouraged or fearful he would become at times. Then he would interject these words, “But then I entered the sanctuary... ” Being in God’s presence affects all other relationships for the better. To have first seen her husband in prayer surely remained a cherish moment for Rebekah.”

— Ravi Zacharias

224. “It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God.”

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225. “The reality is that if religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth, regardless of the mood of the day.”

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226. “We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around.”

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227. “For communication to be effective, especially in matters as life-defining as the gospel message, truth and relevance are the two indispensable wings on which it is borne.”

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228. “The end result is spirituality without dogma, religion without God, argument without substance, rationalization without rationality, and tranquillity by transfer of funds from the seeker’s bank account to the company that makes the best offer of nirvana, at the same time producing dogmatism about relativism in matters of ultimate meaning.”

— Ravi Zacharias

229. “Worship very plainly opens up the healing of all of mankind. The struggle of gender, the struggle of race, the struggle of history, the struggle to find political liberation, the struggle of our own contradictions – nothing can be mended until we understand the symbol of Jesus’ breaking of the bread and pouring of the wine.”

— Ravi Zacharias

230. “To deny the Christian the privilege of propagation is to propagate him or her the fundamental beliefs of another religion.”

— Ravi Zacharias

231. “Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.”

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232. “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it – every, every moment?” The.”

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233. “Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.”

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234. “Accepting and celebrating the thread of your own personality is the first grasp of the Grand Weaver’s design in your life. You are not a number. He knows you by name.”

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235. “Atheists seem to exercise their reductionistic tendencies selectively. If religion stands in the way of saving people, these people have infinite worth. But if the scientist stands in the way of preserving human life, the embryo is “nothing more than a dot.”

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236. “The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; it is spiritual.”

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237. “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

238. “The resulting inability or even desire to reason and think through an idea logically is demonstrated by one-liners such as “I’m not into ’isms.”

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239. “In the early days of marriage, joy precedes the act. Tragically, as the years go by joy can be severed from the act until finally, the act itself is no more. This ought not to be. Over time it is the companionship that brings joy, and service is the natural outworking of the joy of commitment. Failure to act kills it.”

— Ravi Zacharias

240. “In the postmodernist mentality the purpose of dialogue or debate is not for truth but only for feeling, and as passion has taken over, facts are given no legitimacy. The result is hate-filled shouting matches.”

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241. “Are we really ever completely our own person or have we been conditioned in ways beyond our own imagination?”

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242. “So I ask again – if a man who experiences such limited access to his own mental capacities can do such incredible work, how much more grand is the work of our Heavenly Father as he pulls together all the varied strands of life to reveal his grand design? Sometimes he uses soft and delicate colors; at other times he chooses dramatic and vibrant ones.”

— Ravi Zacharias

243. “More often than not religious rites are performed out of fear or superstition. And they are seldom questioned or examined.”

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244. “Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.”

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245. “Think long and hard whether you have reached that mature stage of selflessness for this one you think you love so much. The love you enjoy will be the best thing that ever happened to you, but it will cost you your independence... The responsibility of marriage and family demands time, and when we cheat on that, we rob ourselves of the investment returns.”

— Ravi Zacharias

246. “Many pray for the right partner but cease to pray for the right union – that they be one as Jesus and the Father are one and so experience the full measure of His joy in the relationship.”

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247. “Just as strength is a man’s charm, so charm is a woman’s strength.”

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248. “Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.”

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249. “His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.”

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250. “Living under the tremendous illusion that personal freedoms and freedom of speech are devoid of moral assumptions and responsibilities, we have bankrupted ourselves, so that honor, truth, and morality have been sacrificed at the altar of autonomy and self-worship.”

— Ravi Zacharias