Ravi Zacharias Quotes

       Ravi Zacharias
       1946-
      
       Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias was born in India in 1946 and immigrated to Canada with his family twenty years later. While pursuing a career in business management, his interest in theology grew; subsequently, he pursued this study during his undergraduate education. He received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. Well-versed in the disciplines of comparative religions, cults, and philosophy, he held the chair of Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at Alliance Theological Seminary for three and a half years.
      
       He has multiple other doctorates and degrees from a variety of colleges and seminaries.
      
       For 35 years Ravi Zacharias has spoken all over the world and in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford University. He has addressed writers of the peace accord in South Africa, the president's cabinet and parliament in Peru, and military officers at the Lenin Military Academy and the Center for Geopolitical Strategy in Moscow. At the invitation of the President of Nigeria, he addressed delegates at the First Annual Prayer Breakfast for African Leaders held in Mozambique.
      
       Dr. Zacharias has direct contact with key leaders, senators, congressmen, and governors who consult him on an ongoing basis. He has addressed the Florida Legislature and the Governor’s Prayer Breakfast in Texas, and has twice spoken at the Annual Prayer Breakfast at the United Nations in New York, which marks the beginning of the UN General Assembly each year. As the 2008 Honorary Chairman of the National Day of Prayer, he gave addresses at the White House, the Pentagon, and The Cannon House.
      
       Commentator Chuck Colson referred to Zacharias as "the great apologist of our time."

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.     Topics: Achievement, Perseverance 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?     Topics: Atheism, Religion To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, "I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge."     Topics: Atheism, Knowledge We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.     Topics: Believing What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.     Topics: Believing Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.     Topics: Change 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.     Topics: Christianity, Atheism, The Gospel 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.     Topics: Community What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.     Topics: Encouragement One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.     Topics: Faith, Trust God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes.     Topics: God, Life, The Heart There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.     Topics: God, The Future