Ravi Zacharias is an Indian-born Canadian-American Christian apologist. Here are 32 Inspirational Ravi Zacharias Quotes.
Ravi Zacharias Quotes
1. “There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.”― Ravi Zacharias
2. “It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.”― Ravi Zacharias
3. “One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. …works have a place–but as a demonstration of having received God’s forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.”― Ravi Zacharias
4. “Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing.”― Ravi Zacharias
5. “One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God’s design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.”― Ravi Zacharias
6. “Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.”― Ravi Zacharias
7. “Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must take precedence over what I prefer.”― Ravi Zacharias
8. “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.”― Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias Quotes
9. “Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.”― Ravi Zacharias
10. “I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God’s call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks. The purpose of prayer and of God’s call in your life is not to make you number one in the world’s eyes, but to make him number one in your life. We must be willing to be outshone while shining for God. We hear very little about being smaller in our own self-estimate.”― Ravi Zacharias
11. “Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I’ve seen again and again.”― Ravi Zacharias
12. “We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.”― Ravi Zacharias
13. “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.”― Ravi Zacharias
14. “Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.”― Ravi Zacharias
15. “Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.”― Ravi Zacharias
16. “But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.”― Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias Quotes
17. “With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.”― Ravi Zacharias
18. “You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.”― Ravi Zacharias
19. “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.”― Ravi Zacharias
20. “The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.”― Ravi Zacharias
21. “Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.”― Ravi Zacharias
22. “There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting.”― Ravi Zacharias
23. “Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.”― Ravi Zacharias
24. “Truth by definition excludes.”― Ravi Zacharia
Ravi Zacharias Quotes
25. “What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate...”― Ravi Zacharias
26. “I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.”― Ravi Zacharias
27. “I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.”― Ravi Zacharias
28. “I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.”― Ravi Zacharias
29. “To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge”― Ravi Zacharias
30. “Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.”― Ravi Zacharias
31. “What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.”― Ravi Zacharias