Ravi Zacharias
Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias (born 1946) is an Indian-born, Canadian-American evangelical Christian apologist and evangelist. Zacharias is the author of numerous Christian books, including Gold Medallion Book Award winner Can Man Live Without God? and bestsellers Light in the Shadow of Jihad and The Grand Weaver. He is the founder and chairman of the board of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, host of the radio programs Let My People Think and Just Thinking (heard weekly and daily, respectively, on Christian stations across the U.S.), and visiting professor at Wycliffe Hall of Oxford, where he teaches apologetics and evangelism. Previously, Zacharias studied as a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and held the chair in Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at Alliance Theological Seminary from 1981 to 1984. Commentator Chuck Colson referred to Zacharias as "the great apologist of our time.
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- If two people are not able to reconcile with each other, then one of them is not walking with God.
- Love is as much a question of the will as it is of the emotion. And if you WILL to love somebody, you can - I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
- Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.
- 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.
- Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer. -I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
- We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.
- There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
- What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.
- The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.
- But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.
- 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. -Has Christianity Failed You?
- With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference. -The Real Face of Atheism
- In imagination, evil is more attractive than good, but in reality, good is more attractive than evil.
- In naturalism, man is actually very insignificant, but arrogates to himself stupendous power. In Christianity, man is actually the apex of created significance, but is called to see it in abject humility. "-Created for Significance"
