Jesus Among Secular Gods Quotes

“Though I used to complain about the indecency of the idea of God’s wrath, I came to think that I would have to rebel against a God who wasn’t wrathful at the sight of the world’s evil. God isn’t wrathful in spite of being love. God is wrathful because God is love.13”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ

“If atheism is correct, his nauseating list from genocide to infanticide does not describe God’s character but the people who claim to believe in God.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ

“Whatever worldview we espouse, dialogue and debate should take place with civility and courteous listening. But our times make that ideal so elusive. Holding a supposedly noble belief and reducing it to ignoble means of propagation makes the one who holds that belief suspect.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ

“The heavens may speak of the glory of God, but only the lips of a child or a man or woman can speak His praise. When that praise is not coming, the destructive capacity is enormous, because the mind steals that which belongs to God and the sacred becomes profane.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ

“What holds the laws of a nation? It is the moral soil that must hold the roots.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ

“Life requires some understanding, and the struggles we face need explanatory power. It is when we get the two subjects and their reasons for existence mixed up that we end up with verbal attacks and needless hostility.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ

“You see, there is an intellectual side to life but also a side to life where deep needs are experienced. We falsely think that one side deals with truth and the other with fantasy. Both need the truth, and the elimination of one by the other is not the world in which God intends for us to live.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ

“Thirteen centuries ago, Europe was able to stop the theocratic Islamic tidal wave because it had a faith to defend. The value-less culture of today will not be able to withstand the attack.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Secular Gods: The Countercultural Claims of Christ