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“My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“God has disclosed himself in descriptive terms that give us enough information to be able to know who he is, and he has hidden enough of himself for us to learn the balance between faith and reason.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?

“There is a difference between a belief and a conviction. A belief can become something you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Seeing Jesus from the East: A Fresh Look at History’s Most Influential Figure

“Our society is walking through a maze of cultural land mines and the heaviest price is exacted as we send our children on ahead.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“At the end, Job discovered that this God who was his Creator and Designer, his Revealer and Comforter, his Mediator and Savior, was also his Strengthener and Restorer.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Cries of The Heart: Bringing God Near When He Feels So Far

“I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, “Do you know what you are doing now?�� I thought it was some kind of trick question. “Tell me,�� I said. “You are building your memories,�� he replied, “so make them good ones.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“People in pain may look for comfort and explanations. People disappointed in pleasure look for purpose.”
― Ravi Zacharias, The Logic of God: 52 Christian Essentials for the Heart and Mind

“God’s grace is beyond description. He lifted all of us over the walls of our own imprisonment.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.”
― Frank A. Clark

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either - Or

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I

“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the world does not want to hear at any price. For the world wants to live and rise again before it dies, while the love of Christ wants to die in order to rise again in the form of God on the other side of death, indeed, IN death.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Love Alone is Credible

“Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.”
― A.W. Tozer

“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”
― A. W. Tozer

“Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

“The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.”
― A.W. Tozer, Preparing for Jesus' Return: Daily Live the Blessed Hope

“He is ETERNAL, which means that He antedates time and is wholly independent of it. Time began in Him and will end in Him. To it He pays no tribute and from it He suffers no change.
He is IMMUTABLE, which means that He has never changed and can never change in any smallest measure. To change He would need to go from better to worse or from worse to better. He cannot do either, for being perfect He cannot become more perfect, and if He were to become less perfect He would be less than God.
He is OMNISCIENT, which means that He knows in one free and effortless act all matter, all spirit, all relationships, all events. He has no past and He has no future.
He IS, and none of the limiting and qualifying terms used of creatures can apply to Him.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its very nature scarcely conscious of its own existence. Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“All knowledge degenerates into probability.”
― David Hume

“As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.”
― David Hume, The Natural History Of Religion

“When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Attributes of God: A Journey Into the Father's Heart

“If prayer is the greatest achievement on earth, we may be sure it will call for a discipline that corresponds to its power.”
― Samuel Chadwick, The Path of Prayer

“Faith is a willingness to submit oneself to the biblical limits.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones