{"author":"Ravi Zacharias","author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias","total_quotes":70,"quotes":[{"text":"In the early days of marriage, joy precedes the act. Tragically, as the years go by joy can be severed from the act until finally, the act itself is no more. This ought not to be. Over time it is the companionship that brings joy, and service is the natural outworking of the joy of commitment. Failure to act kills it.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["attitude","commitment","companionship","friendship","love","relationships","service","serving"],"id":5252,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"},{"text":"Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["desire","triumph","sometimes "],"id":14130,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"},{"text":"Think long and hard whether you have reached that mature stage of selflessness for this one you think you love so much. The love you enjoy will be the best thing that ever happened to you, but it will cost you your independence.... The responsibility of marriage and family demands time, and when we cheat on that, we rob ourselves of the investment returns.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["counting-the-cost","independence","marriage","selfishness","selflessness","singleness"],"id":21234,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"},{"text":"In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["christ","confidence","faith"],"id":32332,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"},{"text":"God has put enough into the world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason or observation alone.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["belief-in-god","faith","god","reason"],"id":33655,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"},{"text":"The service [Jesus] gave to humanity was given even when we least merited that sacrifice. There is a joy in service that transcends emotional temporariness.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["emotion","love","sacrifice","service","truth"],"id":37411,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"},{"text":"Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["commitments","marriage","relationships"],"id":44813,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["body","christian","dwelling","god","greed","jesus","lust","restrictions","temple","wealth","worship"],"id":50560,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"},{"text":"The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["acceptance-of-oneself","christianity","god","jesus","purpose"],"id":62197,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"},{"text":"To consume the best for yourself and give the crumbs to God is blasphemy. A heart that truly worships is a heart that gives its best to God in time and substance. A heart that truly worships God gives generously to the causes of God---causes that God cares deeply about. I have to wonder whether someday we may wake up to discover that all our incestous spending on ourselves and our frantic construction of excessively luxurious places of worship---even as we ignore, for the most part, the hurting and the deprived of the world---filled God's heart with pain.","author":"Ravi Zacharias","tags":["church","deprived","giving","hurting","poor","social-justice","tithe"],"id":62362,"author_id":"Ravi+Zacharias"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":70,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}