Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

by Ravi Zacharias

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.

relinquishing a small dream for a greater reality.

When God puts a broken life back together, He removes the scars because He builds from the inside out. And when God steadies a faltering life, He puts you on His footing.

I think of what I gained there as summed up in Jesus’ words, when He said, “The Scripture cannot be broken,” and, “Thy Word is truth,” which He declared in prayer to the Father in John 17.

Someone has said that our sin scorches us most after we have received forgiveness, and not before.

Apologetics had to be about much more than answering questions — it had to focus on questioning the questions and clarifying truth claims.

Apologetics is not just giving answers to questions — it is questioning people’s answers, and even questioning their questions. When you question someone’s question, you compel him or her to open up about his or her own assumptions. Our assumptions must be examined.

Successes are hollow if you do not know the author of life and His purpose.

Only on the cross of Jesus Christ do love, justice, evil, and forgiveness converge. Evil, in the heart of man, shown in the crucifixion; love, in the heart of God who gave his Son; forgiveness, because of the grace of Christ; and justice, because of the law of God revealed.”