Quotes from Ravi Zacharias

God's grace is beyond description. He lifted all of us over the walls of our own imprisonment.

Marriage is not a commercial enterprise in which you replace a car you have tired of with another one. The truth is that the new car will lose its appeal, too, to say nothing about yourself.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

A worldview tested by truth will inform imagination and meditation, not the other way around. That is why the rigorous way of testing truth has always been through logical consistency, empirical adequacy, and experiential relevance.

We are living in a time when sensitivities are at the surface, often vented with cutting words. Philosophically, you can believe anything, so long as you do not claim it to be true. Morally, you can practice anything, so long as you do not claim that it is 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.

If God can do anything, then He surely can even allow evil and call it good. Why does He have to explain it? Surely, if omnipotence means all-powerful without even logical or rational limitation, He can allow evil to exist and not see any incoherence in it. And if God can do anything He pleases why can't He simply be incoherent as well? That may be irrational to the skeptic, but does not limitless power also mean the power to be irrational without justification?

Oh, Earth, you're too wonderful for anyone to realize you!" Then

If atheism is correct, his nauseating list from genocide to infanticide does not describe God's character but the people who claim to believe in God.

In diminishing the other we devalue ourselves. Respect and dignity are an intrinsic part of valued relationships.

Spirituality does not give relevance to life; rather, truth gives relevance to spirituality.

It is not goodness we are called to, but worship.

taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?