Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zacharias
Ravi Zachariasis an Indian-born Canadian-American Christian apologist. A defender of traditional evangelicalism, Zacharias is the author of numerous Christian books, including the Gold Medallion Book Award winner Can Man Live Without God? in the category "theology and doctrine" and Christian 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, and has been...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth26 March 1946
CountryUnited States of America
Evil is a violation of purpose, the purpose of your creator and mine.
Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.
Years ago I was asked this question: Do terrorists fear anything? I said, 'I suspect they would fear a morally strong America.' They would know that a morally strong America would not be dislodged. You can always appeal to a point of vulnerability which would break a people up. [Terrorists] don't fear so much the weaponry as the moral courage, and I think a morally strong America would be intimidating to them.
For many in our high-paced world, despair is not a moment; it is a way of life.
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
In Christian engagement, the goal is to win the person who is of the other worldview - not to destroy the person.
Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.
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?
The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?
What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.
History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves.
I have absolutely no doubt that if you are a praying Christian, your faith in God is what is carrying you, through both the good times and the hard times. However, if you are not a praying person, you are carrying your faith - you are trying to make your faith work for you apart from your source of power - and trying to carry the infinite is very exhausting.
The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.