About The Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
hen former skeptic and seventeen-year-old Ravi Zacharias heard the words of Jesús in John 14:19, "Because I live, you also will live," the trajectory of his life changed forever. In a time of helplessness and unbelief —when he was on a bed of suicide—the truth of Scripture brought hope to Zacharias, and he committed his life to Christ, promising, "I will leave no stone unturned in my pursuit of truth." Earlier in John 14, Jesús said, "I am the way and the truth and the life."
This verse has become the cornerstone of Zacharias's ultimate mission as a Christian apologist and evangelist: to present and defend the truth of Jesús Christ that others may find life in Him. He is the founder and president of Ravi
Zacharias International Ministries and has authored or edited more than twentyfive books in the fields of theology, apologetics, comparative religión, and philosophy, including Can Man Live Without God? and Jesús Among Other
Gods. He has mentored such individuáis as bestselling author Nabeel Qureshi (Seeking Allah, Finding Jesús). Zacharias and his wife, Margie, have been married for more than forty-five years and have three grown children. They reside in Atlanta.
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CHAPTER 2: The Ultiroatp Callin p 1. Quoted by Bobby Conway, The Fifth Gospel (Eugene, OR: Harvest House,
2014), 9.
CHAPTER 3: Point of Exclusión 1. Gilbert K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912), 48.
CHAPTER 6: Christianitv Without Christ?
1. John Stott, Basic Christianity (London: Intervarsity Press, 1971), 8.
CHAPTER 8: The Greatest Investment 1. A. W. Tozer, "Give Time to God," in Mornings xvith Tozer: Daily Devotional
Readings (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2015), reading for February 24.
2. Ibid.
CHAPTER 14: The Heart of God 1. Francis Thompson, The Hound ofHeaven (Portland, ME: Thomas Mosher,
1902), 3.
2. Ibid., 16.
CHAPTER 15: What Ha p pened to Your Hands?
1. Calvin Miller, Spirit, Word, and Story (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005), 5657.
CHAPTER 17: Justice and Virtue 1. "From George Washington to Edmund Randolph 28 September 1789," accessed 19 October 2018, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0073.
2. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book V, Chapter 1, accessed 23 July 2018, http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ari/nico/nico044.htm.
3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, n.d.), 616.
CHAPTER 19: Who Owns Your Heart?
1. Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 4.
2. David Gelernter, "How Hard Is Chess?" TIME, May 19, 1997.
3. Ibid.
CHAPTER 22: The Most Difficult Questions 1. Thomas Moore, Dark Nights ofthe Soul (New York: Penguin Random House,
2004), 3.
CHAPTER 26: AU Thin e s New 1. Sam Harris, "God's Dupes," Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2007.
2. Richard Dawkins, "Virases of the Mind," 1992 Voltaire Lecture (London:
British Humanist Association, 1993), 9.
CHAPTER 27: Does Praver Matter 1. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995), 87.
CHAPTER 28: The Spirit of Praver 1. Quoted in Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries (Minneapolis: Bethany
Fellowship, 1959), 156.
CHAPTER 30: The Valué of Somethin g 1. G. K. Chesterton, As I Was Saying, Robert Knille, ed. (Grand Rapids
Eerdmans, 1985), 267.
CHAPTER 31: The Gift of Faith 1. G. K. Chesterton, Lecture 5: G.F. Watts, posted by Dale Ahlquist. Accessed
22 July 2018 at https://www.chesterton.org/lecture-5/.
CHAPTER 34: A Taste of Worshi p 1. William Temple, Readings in St. John's Gospel (London: Macmillan, 1940),
68.
CHAPTER 35: Livin g Temples 1. Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (New York: Basic
Books, 1978), xv.
CHAPTER 38: Ri g ht Where We Are Wron g 1. Quoted in Dale Ahlquist, G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle ofCommon Sense
(San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2003).
CHAPTER 40: Re g enerative Power 1. Cari H. Henry, The Christian Mindset in a Secular Society (Sisters, OR:
Multnomah Press, 1984).
2. Ibid.
CHAPTER 41: Man of Sorrows 1. Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), 29.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
CHAPTER 43: Scandal of the Cross 1. For an insightful article on this topic, see Abdu Murray, "Islam or Christianity: Reflections on God's Greatness," Just Thinking Magazine 24, no. 1,
December 24, 2015, https://rzim.org/just-thinking/islam-orchristianityreflections-on-gods-greatness/.
2. Attributed to E. H. Chapín and quoted under entry "Sin" in Tryon Edwards, ed., A Dictionary ofThoughts: Being a Cyclopedia ofLaconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (Detroit, MI: F. B.
Dickerson Co., 1908), 527.