Justin Steckbauer > Justin's Quotes

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.”
― Ravi Zacharias, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah

“We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.”
― Ravi Zacharias

“The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come form being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God

“Dragoste gratuită nu există; dragostea este expresia cea mai costisitoare din lume. Dar lucrul minunat este că prețul ei a fost plătit deja.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“If God is the author of life, there must be a script.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“The loss of something that is never thought of, felt, or sought for when lost is not a loss at all.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God

“There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian does not go to the temple to worship. The Christian takes the temple with him or her. Jesus lifts us beyond the building and pays the human body the highest compliment by making it His dwelling place, the place where He meets with us. Even today He would overturn the tables of those who make it a marketplace for their own lust, greed and wealth.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr

“You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”
― Rick Warren

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
― A.W. Tozer

“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

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
― A.W. Tozer

“The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, Art and the Bible: Two Essays

“Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.”
― Francis Schaeffer

“The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.”
― Francis Schaeffer

“In the 1950s kids lost their innocence.
They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term ---the generation gap.

In the 1960s, kids lost their authority.
It was a decade of protest---church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it.

In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self.
Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion....It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference.

In the 1980s, kids lost their hope.
Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future.

In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world.

In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Recapture the Wonder

“What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.”
― Ravi Zacharias

“There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.”
― Ravi Zacharias

“Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.”
― Ravi Zacharias

“Truth by definition excludes.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message