“The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced the ultimate, and it has let you down.”

—  Ravi Zacharias

As quoted in "Moralistic Therapeutic Deism: Not Just a Problem with Youth Ministry" https://web.archive.org/web/20180309082359/http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/mtd-not-just-a-problem-with-youth-ministry/ (9 April 2012), by Brian Cosby, The Gospel Coalition

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