Quotes By Author: Ravi Zacharias

“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’ brother”

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

“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.”

“…they’re here for a moment and then gone. At best they have “liftoff” power, or, to use a different analogy, they are like periodic flashes of lightning on a dark road, with no guiding power.”

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

“We are living in a time when sensitivities are at the surface, often vented with cutting words. Philosophically, you can believe anything so as you do not claim it a better way. Religiously, you can hold to anything, so long as you do not bring Jesus Christ into it. If a spiritual idea is eastern, it is granted critical immunity; if western, it is thoroughly criticized. Thus, a journalist can walk into a church and mock its carryings on, but he or she dare not do the same if the ceremony is from eastern fold. Such is the mood at the end of the twentieth century. A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling. But that is precisely what I believe postmodernism best represents – a mood.”

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

“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.”