Cries of The Heart Quotes

“Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s” (v. 15). This verse is the middle verse of the Old Testament and rightly so, for it gives the assurance that when we trust in God He will fight for us. The battle is not ours; it is His.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Cries of The Heart: Bringing God Near When He Fells So Far

“At the end, Job discovered that this God who was his Creator and Designer, his Revealer and Comforter, his Mediator and Savior, was also his Strengthener and Restorer.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Cries of The Heart: Bringing God Near When He Feels So Far

“How do we build root systems capable of weathering every storm that seeks to draw us into the temporary and the profane?”
― Ravi Zacharias, Cries of The Heart: Bringing God Near When He Fells So Far

“There is a place for knowing and hearing and reading. But there has to come a moment of personal surrender. Our commitment to God has sufficient objective truth so that the truth claims can be verified. The Bible is not a fanciful book of spiritual speculation conjured up by dreamers. There are historical, geographical, and philosophical assertions that can be measured and confirmed by the historian, the archeologist, and the philosopher, respectively. But the point of real contact comes when that third-person knowledge - that knowledge about God - becomes a first-person trust in God and commitment to His will. Only then does the personal understanding bring a transformed attitude.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Cries of The Heart: Bringing God Near When He Feels So Far

“What God wanted him [Job] to realize was that this same God who brought such pattern and beauty into a world He had fashioned out of nothing could also bring a pattern and beauty out of Job's brokenness. The universe is both complex and intelligible, and Job was reminded of that. There is intelligence behind the design,as there is also intelligence in helping us cope with suffering.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Cries of The Heart: Bringing God Near When He Feels So Far

“We have become so accustomed to hearing preachers or expositors, as important as that is, that many in the process have abandoned the grand privilege of personally hearing from God’s Word daily.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Cries of The Heart: Bringing God Near When He Feels So Far

“Without words life would be inexpressible. Even the best of emotions beg for a verbal expression. That is why the musician reaches not just to the melody but to the romance of language to bring harmony to life.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Cries of The Heart: Bringing God Near When He Feels So Far

“That is why God’s great desire is that we see our hearts before Him as He does, recognizing that we are not qualified to make moral judgments apart from Him. Like Job, when we come to Him as Creator and Designer, Revealer and Comforter, Mediator and Savior, we find that He is also the Strengthener and Restorer. On the basis of what we know, we can trust His character for what we do not know.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Cries of The Heart: Bringing God Near When He Fells So Far