Ravi Zacharias Quotes

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Love risks everything and asks for nothing.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.

....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.

Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.

If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose.

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.