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
Today there is no greater force in the molding of the North American mind than the invasion of the imagination by the visual media.
We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.
We do our universities a disservice when we brand them as a lost cause. There are some frightfully honest students out there, and when their questions are respectfully dealt with, many admit their vulnerability.
In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.
Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them.
When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.
If God is the author of life, there must be a script.
It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.
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.
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is.