Philip Yancey

Quotes by Philip Yancey

• To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, I LOVE YOU. Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

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• But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?

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• Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

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• God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.

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• All of us in the church need —grace-healed eyes— to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.

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• Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

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• Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

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• The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth.

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• We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.

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• Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.

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• Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

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• God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

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• We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

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• Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

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• To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, I LOVE YOU. Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

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• We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.

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• God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

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• All of us in the church need —grace-healed eyes— to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.

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• Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

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• But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?

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