I mentioned this book yesterday, and today I want to share a few other of my favorite quotes here. Unlike yesterday's quote, these are all in Ravi Zacharias's own words.
For those who say Christians are forcing their beliefs on others:
"One of India's leading 'saints' Sri Ramakrishna, is said to have been for a little while a Muslim, for a little while a Christian, and then finally, a Hindu again, because he came to the conclusion that they are all the same. If they are all the same, Why did he revert to Hinduism? It is just not true that all religions are the same? Even Hindusim is not the same within itself. Thus, to deny the Christian the privilege of propagation is to propagate to him or her the fundamental beliefs of another religion."
On the origin of ethics:
"Not one proponent of evolutionary ethics has explained how an impersonal, amoral first cause through a nonmoral process has produced a moral basis for life, while at the same time denying any objective mroal basis for good and evil. Does it not seem odd that of all the permutations and combinations that a random universe might afford we should end up with the notions of the true, the good, and the beautiful? Why call anything good or evil?.....Objective moral values exist only if God exists."
On the futility of modernism:
"The surest evidence that evil is not the enemy of meaning is this inescapable existential reality: that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain but from neing weary of pleasure. This obvious truth is conspicuously absent in the arguments of skeptics. It is not pain that has driven the West into emptiness; it has been the drowning of meaning in the oceans of our pleasures. Pleasure gone wrong is a greater curse than physical blindness. The blindness to the sacred is the cause of all evil."
I hope these quotes tantalize you into taking a look at the whole book. I recommend it.
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