Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
Ravi ZachariasRead
It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.
Interpretation
The significance of Good Friday lies in the hope and renewal that follows the suffering and sacrifice.
Ravi Zacharias emphasizes that Good Friday, which commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, is 'good' not solely because of the event itself, but because it precedes the resurrection. The resurrection represents a powerful message of hope, renewal, and the triumph of life over death, making the day meaningful despite the sorrow associated with the crucifixion.
In practice
In a sermon about hope and renewal during Easter celebrations.
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fatal hemorrhage. The system will never change because our starting point is flawed. The secular view of man can neither give the grandeur that God alone can give, nor can it see the evil within the human heart that God alone can reveal and cure, for atheism implicitly denudes each individual of the grand image God has imprinted upon His creation.
Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.
If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?
Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the 'right' notes and the 'wrong' ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.
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