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
Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
Interpretation
Our preconceived notions and desire for success can obstruct our spiritual connection with God.
In this quote, Ravi Zacharias suggests that our biases and relentless pursuit of victory can create barriers that prevent us from experiencing the divine presence of God. When we cling too tightly to our expectations and desires, we may overlook or dismiss the spiritual truths that are available to us, limiting our ability to connect meaningfully with something greater than ourselves.
In practice
During a sermon about faith and spirituality, this quote can illustrate the challenges of truly connecting with God.
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.
When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
In the stream, _x000D_ Rushing past _x000D_ To the dusty world, _x000D_ My fleeting form _x000D_ Casts no reflection.
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