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Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend QUOTES

Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend QUOTES

1 " Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver. "

― Ravi Zacharias , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

2 " 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 , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

3 " We are fashioned by God to be thinking and emotional creatures. The emotions should follow reason, and not the other way around. "

― Ravi Zacharias , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

4 " There is no greater example in apologetics than the apostle Paul speaking at Mars Hill. The irony of the talk Paul gave is in the difference in reaction the Easterner has when reading Paul’s address to that of a Westerner. The Easterner is thrilled at how the apostle wove the message starting from where the listeners were to bring them to where he was in his thinking. The average Westerner is quick to point out that few of his hearers responded. Such an attitude says volumes about why the church in the West has been so intellectually weak. To those in the West, the bigger the number of respondents, the more replicated the technique. The bigger the statistic, the greater the success. Westerners are enamored by size, largesse, number of hands raised, and so on. When the sun has set on these reports, we seem rather dismayed when statistics show the quality of the life of the believer is no different from that of the unbeliever. "

― Ravi Zacharias , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

5 " I recently walked through the Cambodian killing fields and saw the remnants of that horror myself. I remember looking down at my sandals to see what had been caught between my toes as I was walking through the grass—it was a human tooth. There are teeth, tattered clothing, bones, and other remains of the tortured still scattered throughout the fields today. One of the taunting slogans of the regime was: “To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss.” While attending a church service in Cambodia, I was served Communion by a former member of the Khmer Rouge whose life was completely transformed by the love of Christ. Many other former regime members have also dedicated their lives to Christ and are active in the church today. If Pol Pot’s soldiers can change, then there is hope for even a rebellious teenager. "

― Ravi Zacharias , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

6 " Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one’s conscience. "

― Ravi Zacharias , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

7 " I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out. "

― Ravi Zacharias , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

8 " The postmodern challenge I have heard on numerous occasions goes something like this: “You don’t mean to say that you take the Bible literally, do you?” I love to answer with the words of a great Christian who was asked this question and reportedly replied, “The Bible says that Herod is a fox, but we don’t think that means he had pointy ears and a bushy tail. It also mentions that Jesus is a door—which does not mean that he is flat, wooden, and swings on hinges. "

― Ravi Zacharias , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

9 " I am convinced, in the words of C. S. Lewis—who in my estimation is probably the greatest Christian apologist in recent memory—that the question of being an apologist is not so much whether you use an apologetic in answering someone’s question, but whether the apologetic you already use is a good one. "

― Ravi Zacharias , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

10 " if you are reading this and you really believe that you’re perfect, there’s only one solution to that predicament: you need to get married. If you are married, then you need to start listening! "

― Ravi Zacharias , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

11 " post-moderns to reject God, they have "

― Ravi Zacharias , Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend