I finished my biography of Ravi Zacharias! It was great! I wanted to drop a couple of lines regarding some things that grabbed my attention. Good food for thought. This book reminded me how much I need to keep myself in the discipline of reading. I have been very lax....
Nonetheless...
"God had been in the shadows all along. Every step of the way-from the beautiful girl I met adn married, to the school where my theology was shaped, to the committed buddies God gave me-everything was being put back together. It was as if all the dismantling I'd done with the first seventeen years of my life was being given back to me, but this time the Lord was putting it together with His unerring hand."
When starting RZIM - Ravi proposed a different name for the new ministry. However, he was advised that "No, Ravi, so much has happened with people in ministry having gone astray. If you give this ministry your name, it will stand up behind your integrity, or fall with the lack of it."
"If the reasoning is sound, the feelings will follow. Feelings follow belief; belief, then, should follow truth."
"What life is about defines how life must be lived."
"Years later I would read an observation by G.K. Chesterton that, to me, summed up Victor's impact. Chesterton says, in essence, that there is a dislocation of humility in our times. We have become more confident in who we are and less in what we believe. Our pride has moved us from the organ of conviction to the organ of ambition, when it is intended to be the other way around. In short, our confidence should be in our message and not in ourselves."
"Our assumptions must be examined."
David Livingstone: "Lord, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. Sever any ties but the ties that bind me to your service and to your heart."
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