The Best Ravi Zacharius quotes

Truth by definition excludes. — Ravi Zacharias

Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is. — Ravi Zacharias

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it. — Ravi Zacharias

Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth. — Ravi Zacharias

My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth. — Ravi Zacharias

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth. — Ravi Zacharias

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth. — Ravi Zacharias

Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must be able to make a cogent and sensible response to the counterpoints that are raised. — Ravi Zacharias

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person. — Ravi Zacharias

Every religion at its core is exclusive. — Ravi Zacharias

What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong. — Ravi Zacharias

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion. — Ravi Zacharias

Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best–known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive. — Ravi Zacharias

If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven’t understood that religion. — Ravi Zacharias

Today, sensitivities are at an all–time high–and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the years, but pluralism has given way to relativism. — Ravi Zacharias

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith. — Ravi Zacharias

For many in our high–paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life. — Ravi Zacharias

If God is the author of life, there must be a script. — Ravi Zacharias

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life–defining. — Ravi Zacharias

For the Christian, worship is co–extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship. — Ravi Zacharias

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life’s twin realities, love and hate. — Ravi Zacharias

A friend asked the author,’If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know? — Ravi Zacharias

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave. — Ravi Zacharias

Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged. — Ravi Zacharias

The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down. — Ravi Zacharias

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It’s all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life. — Ravi Zacharias

The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in life. He or she feels no need for anything transcendent. — Ravi Zacharias

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers. — Ravi Zacharias

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. — Ravi Zacharias

The purpose of prayer and of God’s call in your life isn’t to make you number one in the world’s eyes but to make Him number one in your life. — Ravi Zacharias

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. — Ravi Zacharias

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do. — Ravi Zacharias

Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. — Ravi Zacharias

We have to find the back door to peoples’ hearts because the front door is heavily guarded. — Ravi Zacharias

What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind. — Ravi Zacharias

The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder. — Ravi Zacharias

Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity. — Ravi Zacharias

You can easily substitute the intellect for true devotion. Devotion comes from the heart, and from the will. The intellect, you can cerebrally answer things, but you make a big mistake when that happens. — Ravi Zacharias

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you. — Ravi Zacharias

Even though the search for meaning is debunked today, the cries of the human heart can be smothered for only so long. In these yearnings, the search for significance and fulfillment continues. — Ravi Zacharias

God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross — Ravi Zacharias

Time isn’t just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart. — 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

It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow. — Ravi Zacharias

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness. — Ravi Zacharias

In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step. — Ravi Zacharias

The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous. — Ravi Zacharias

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

What is the message of Christmas? It is the birth of the One who promised peace, joy and love. — Ravi Zacharias

If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive. — Ravi Zacharias

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation. — Ravi Zacharias

Jesus came to save souls in his fathers name with love and only love that is why he turned up as a man, so why can’t we see his real message? — Ravi Zacharias

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. — Ravi Zacharias

You can’t take treasured beliefs from the past and mock them. — Ravi Zacharias

The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle. — Ravi Zacharias

The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty. — Ravi Zacharias

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone. — Ravi Zacharias

The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable… what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction. — Ravi Zacharias

The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate–filled, unforgiving world. God’s forgiveness gives us a fresh start. — Ravi Zacharias

The Biblical world–view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God–given strength and sustenance in the midst of it. — Ravi Zacharias

The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live! — Ravi Zacharias

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God. — Ravi Zacharias

Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it’s your moral right. There was a pin–drop silence. — Ravi Zacharias

Whenever you try to break God’s moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others–all while proving His law in the process. — Ravi Zacharias