Ravi Zacharias Quotes

If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night-to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

I don't compromise. I only do the stuff I want to do.

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

You get to do what you want to do – if that’s what you want to do.

If we're living in a free country,we should be free to do what we want to do if we're not hurting anyone else or their property. Why should I be incarcerated if I'm doing something that doesn't hurt anyone else?

I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be.

Life is serious, but I do think that God wants us to enjoy the things He's given us, like music.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

When you jerk off, you're saying "Hey", I care about me.

We want wealth, but there are many other things we want very much more. Among them are peace, honor, charity, and idealism.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

When God is all you have, then all you have, is all you need.

I don't want a lot of strangers looking down at my wrinkles and my big fat belly when I'm dead.

Instead of loaves of bread, many times God gives out handfuls of purpose.

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.