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Ravi Zacharias Biography

Ravi Zacharias (born 26 March 1946) is 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. Zacharias is the founder and chairman of the board of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) and host of the radio programs Let My People Think and Just Thinking. Zacharias held the chair in Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at Alliance Theological Seminary from 1981 to 1984. Evangelical Christian leader Chuck Colson referred to Zacharias as "the great apologist of our time."

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

Altar, Ideas, Indifference, Real, Tolerance

If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?

Believe, Doors, Night, Subjective

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.

Allow, Follow, God, Intends, Prefer, Want

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.

Heart, Long, Smothered, Today, Yearnings

The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from truth. The task of apologetics is to carefully remove that hazardous material and keep it from igniting into a destructive fire. Once that is done, the way to the heart is always through the way of the Cross, God’s love for each and every one of us.

Block, Carefully, Heart, Life, Struggle

The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

Cardinal, Christian, Dead, Jesus, Spiritual

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.

Call, Eye, Make, Numbers, Prayer, Purpose

In the gospel message, the beginning of change occurs in the heart of each individual. This heart change makes a difference in the home, then in the community, and ultimately in the nation- and in turn it shapes the future of a cultural ethos.

Beginning, Ethos, Heart, Home, Shapes, Turn

We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.

Fences, Impunity, Law, Laws, Rewriting, Thinking

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.

Impossible, Live, Reason, Reasonable, Thing, World

Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact.

Ideas, Opponents, Dignity, Wrestle, Opponent

The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double standard of atheism! It is possible to dress up and romanticize our bizarre experiments in social restructuring while disavowing truth or absolutes. But one dares not play such deadly games with the foundations of good thinking.

Foundations, Games, Laughter, Response, Thinking, Unmasked

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.

Exposition, Giftedness, Ideas, Important, Person, Skills

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.

Die, Evil, Odd, Silence, Suffering

Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.

Essence, Would Be, Opinion, Conscience, Conviction

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.

Answers, Atheist, Everyone, Questions, What Is Life

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

Absolute, Disavow, Elite, Ideas, Intellectual, Usa

Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each man and woman, boy and girl, so that we begin to think God's thoughts and act in accordance with his character.

Character, Cultural, Girl, Heart, Political, Root

We need to learn how to handle critique and how to address an antagonist.

Address, Addresses, Antagonist, Critique, Learn, Needs

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Christian, Facts, Jesus, Sent, Sin, Volume

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