Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
Ravi ZachariasRead
Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the transformative power of Jesus, focusing on spiritual rebirth rather than moral improvement.
Ravi Zacharias highlights the essence of Jesus's message: it is not merely about improving one's conduct but about a profound change that brings a person from spiritual death to life. This perspective shifts the focus from ethical behavior to a fundamental renewal of the spirit, suggesting that true faith is about experiencing a new existence through connection with Jesus.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon to illustrate the concept of spiritual awakening.
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fatal hemorrhage. The system will never change because our starting point is flawed. The secular view of man can neither give the grandeur that God alone can give, nor can it see the evil within the human heart that God alone can reveal and cure, for atheism implicitly denudes each individual of the grand image God has imprinted upon His creation.
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.
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.
It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.
You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another's unhappiness
If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.
The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.
God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.
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