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The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives QUOTES

1 " The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

2 " To be able to accept the wonder and the marvel of one's own personality, however flawed or 'accidental,' and place it in and trust it to the hands of the One who made it, is one of the greatest achievements in life. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

3 " Perfection, then, is not a change in the essential character but the completion of a course. This is precisely what Jesus must have meant when he admonished his disciples and us to 'be perfect,' as our Heavenly Father is perfect. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

4 " God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

5 " We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

6 " Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

7 " If you notice, the moral law in the other legal codes separates people (the Laws of Manu, the caste system, the Code of Hammurabi with the slave/owner distinction). In Islam, the violator is inferior to the obedient one. By contrast, in the Hebrew-Christian tradition, the law unifies people. No one is made righteous before God by keeping the law. It is only following redemption that we can truly understand the moral law for what it is---a mirror that indicts and calls the heart to seek God's help. This makes moral reasoning the fruit of spiritual understanding and not the cause of it. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

8 " To consume the best for yourself and give the crumbs to God is blasphemy. A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance. A heart that truly worships God gives generously to the causes of God---causes that God cares deeply about. I have to wonder whether someday we may wake up to discover that all our incestous spending on ourselves and our frantic construction of excessively luxurious places of worship---even as we ignore, for the most part, the hurting and the deprived of the world---filled God's heart with pain. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

9 " God the Grand Weaver seeks those with tender hearts so that he can put his imprint on them. Your hurts and your disappointments are part of that design, to shape your heart and the way you feel about reality. The hurts you live through will always shape you. There is no other way. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

10 " Only if you are willing to pray sincerely for God’s will to be done and are willing to live the life apportioned to you will you see the breathtaking view of God that he wants you to have, through the windows he has placed in your life. You cannot always live on the mountaintop, but when you walk through the valley, the memory of the view from the mountain will sustain you and give you the strength to carry you through. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

11 " So where does one begin? With self-crucifixion. In effect, we go to our own funeral and bury the self-will so that God’s will can reign supremely in our hearts. Our will has no power to do God’s will until it first dies to its own desires and the Holy Spirit brings a fresh power within. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

12 " But the greatest dream of all is to know God and to know what he has intended for your life. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

13 " how much more grand is the work of our Heavenly Father as he pulls together all the varied strands of life to reveal his grand design? "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

14 " 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. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

15 " Worship very plainly opens up the healing of all of mankind. The struggle of gender, the struggle of race, the struggle of history, the struggle to find political liberation, the struggle of our own contradictions — nothing can be mended until we understand the symbol of Jesus’ breaking of the bread and pouring of the wine. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

16 " Here is life’s essential purpose — to worship God in spirit and in truth (see John 4:24). All other purposes are meant to be secondary. When they become primary, they destroy the individual. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

17 " So do not fear the struggle; rather, embrace it. Embrace it in the knowledge that the Grand Weaver will take all of your struggles, questions, disappointments, and fears and use them to build your faith and increasingly make you into a man or woman who looks like Jesus Christ. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

18 " More and more, when something terrible happens, we declare, “That’s life!” — as though disappointment and heartache declare the sum total of this existence. We miss the roses and see only the thorns. We take for granted the warmth of the sun and get depressed by the frequency of the rain or the snow. We ignore the sounds of life in a nursery because we are preoccupied with the sounds of sirens responding to an emergency. We forget the marvel of a marriage that has endured the test of time because we feel discouraged by the heartaches of loved ones whose marriages didn’t make it to the end. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

19 " When God brings us to salvation, the most remarkable thing we see is that he transforms our hungers. He changes not just what we do but what we want to do. This is the work of the Holy Spirit within us — “for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose” (Philippians 2:13). "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

20 " A calling is simply God’s shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing. "

― Ravi Zacharias , The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives