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If the loss of shame was the child of secularization, the loss of reason is the child of pluralization.
- Ravi Zacharias
A knowledge and appreciation of history is difficult for a culture so enthralled by the moment, a culture that shuns the discipline of a larger context in any study. Unfortunately this loss of historical interest has made the present difficult to address because the context of the past is imperative if we are to salvage the future.
- Ravi Zacharias
According to a recent study by a major university, the average college student pursues "sex without strings and marriage without rings.
- Ravi Zacharias
Every culture exploits some segment of society in order to entertain hungers, either private or public. We are all pleasure seekers, and what gives us pleasure is a revelation of our values.
- Ravi Zacharias
His stories are so Eastern
- Ravi Zacharias
One can go down the line and see that every claim that Jesus made of Himself challenged my culture's most basic assumptions about life and meaning. (It is important to remember, of course, that these basic religions within the Indian framework are also not in concert with each other. Buddha was a Hindu before he rejected some of Hinduism's fundamental doctrines and conceived in their place the Buddhist way. Islam radically differs from Hinduism.) Ironically
- Ravi Zacharias
Thirteen centuries ago, Europe was able to stop the theocratic Islamic tidal wave because it had a faith to defend. The value-less culture of today will not be able to withstand the attack.
- Ravi Zacharias
Marcello Pera, the atheist philosopher and former Italian politician, has argued powerfully that Western love of liberty, equality, and brotherhood simply wouldn't exist without the Christian message.4
- Ravi Zacharias
Every weakness in a capable person is generally a strength abused. The same applies to culture.
- Ravi Zacharias
Staring at life's cryptogram, we either see His [Jesus'] name unmistakably resplendont or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture. That may be the tragedy of the beguiling sentiment we call tolerance, which has become a euphemism for contradiction.
- Ravi Zacharias
Contrary to what is popularly believed, deep in the heart of India, especially with the Nambudiris, society is quite matriarchal. Her step of faith in Christ, therefore, was a bigger blow to the family than one
- Ravi Zacharias
What holds the laws of a nation? It is the moral soil that must hold the roots.
- Ravi Zacharias