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| a124dc5 | Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty | conventional-wisdom culture parenthood | John Howard Griffin | |
| 74733a1 | DESEGREGATE THE BUSES WITH THIS 7 POINT PROGRAM: 1. Pray for guidance. 2. Be courteous and friendly. 3. Be neat and clean. 4. Avoid loud talk. 5. Do not argue. 6. Report incidents immediately. 7. Overcome evil with good. Sponsored by Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance Rev. A. L. Davis, Pres. Rev. J. E. Poindexter, Secretary | disagreements hatred pacifism | John Howard Griffin | |
| 9908d3f | The music consumed in its blatant rhythm all other rhythms, even that of the heartbeat. I wondered how all this would look to the casual observer, or to the whites in their homes. "The niggers are whooping it up over on Mobile Street tonight," they might say. "They're happy." Or, as one scholar put it, "Despite their lowly status, they are capable of living jubilantly." Would they see the immense melancholy that hung over the quarter, so op.. | tags-1959 us-history | John Howard Griffin | |
| dff38da | But there are differences. The social studies I've read ..." "They don't deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white," I said. "They only study the effects of environment on human nature. You place the white man in the ghetto, deprive him of educational advantages, arrange it so he has to struggle hard to fulfill his instinct for self-respect, give him little physical privacy and less leisure, and he would after a.. | racial-discrimination us-history | John Howard Griffin | |
| e3b0d4d | What fragmented individualism really meant was what happened to a black man who tried to make it in this society: in order to succeed, he had to become an imitation white man - dress white, talk white, think white, express the values of middle-class white culture (at least when he was in the presence of white men). Implied in all this was the hiding, the denial, of his selfhood, his negritude, his culture, as though they were somehow shamef.. | racial-discrimination us-history | John Howard Griffin | |
| a421465 | I spent years," he told me, "studying the phenomenon of love." "And I spend years studying the phenomenon of justice." "At base, we spend years studying the same thing." | equality justice love | John Howard Griffin | |
| 76db216 | We've reached a poor state when people are afraid that doing the decent and right thing is going to help the communist conspiracy. | justice right-and-wrong | John Howard Griffin | |
| 79809fa | We are inconsistent, said Mother Teresa, to care about violence, and to care about hungry children in places like India and Africa, and yet not care about the millions who are killed by the deliberate choice of their own mothers. | Philip Yancey | ||
| b542b30 | To judge God solely by the present world would be a tragic mistake. At one time, it may have been "the best of all possible worlds," but surely it is not now. The Bible communicates no message with more certainty than God's displeasure with the state of creation and the state of humanity. Imagine this scenario: vandals break into a museum displaying works from Picasso's Blue Period. Motivated by sheer destructiveness, they splash red paint .. | Philip Yancey | ||
| e65cc46 | Prayer helps correct myopia, calling to mind a perspective I daily forget. I keep reversing roles, thinking of ways in which God should serve me, rather than vice versa. As God fiercely reminded Job, the Lord of the universe has many things to manage, and in the midst of my self-pity I would do well to contemplate for a moment God's own point of view. | Philip Yancey | ||
| c73ee62 | Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are. | Philip Yancey | ||
| ee78557 | Does prayer change God or change me? | Philip Yancey | ||
| c579ff9 | We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed. | whine | Philip Yancey | |
| a89b2b4 | I'm convinced that human beings instinctively seek two things. We long for meaning, a sense that our life somehow matters to the world around us. And we long for community, a sense of being loved. | Philip Yancey | ||
| d0e4327 | Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says, 'Oh dear, things can't possibly get any worse.' An optimist says, 'Don't be so sad. Things can always get worse. | Philip Yancey | ||
| acd5e20 | The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me. Those conversations are what led to the title of this book. Although God's grace is as amazing as ever, in my divided country it seems in vanishing supply." | Philip Yancey | ||
| be121e2 | It is dangerous and perhaps even unscriptural to torture ourselves by looking for his message in a specific throb of pain, a specific instance of suffering. The message may simply be that we live in a world with fixed laws, like everyone else. But from the larger view, from the view of all history, yes, God speaks to us through suffering--or perhaps in spite of suffering. The symphony he is composing includes minor chords, dissonance, and t.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 3ce4934 | Faith, I've concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse. | Philip Yancey | ||
| d589e0b | The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down. | Philip Yancey | ||
| b3c264a | we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." And "he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all -- how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" | Philip Yancey | ||
| b74d8a2 | Religious faith--for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace--lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift undeserved that comes at unexpected moments from Outside. Refusing to believe that our lives of guilt and shame lead to nothing but annihilation, we hope against hope for another place run by different rules. We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for ou.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 762d8cd | Don't judge Christ by those of us who imperfectly bear his name. | Philip Yancey | ||
| fd4665a | Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, "Well isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff." | Philip Yancey | ||
| ed9a169 | Stanley Hauerwas, named "America's best theologian" by Time magazine, summed up the problem: "I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world." | Philip Yancey | ||
| a5ed7eb | My identity in Christ is more important than my identity as an American or as a Coloradan or as a white male or as a Protestant. Church is the place where I celebrate that new identity and work it out in the midst of people who have many differences but share this one thing in common. We are charged to live out a kind of alternative society before the eyes of the watching world, a world that is increasingly moving toward tribalism and divis.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 8872a8c | The only hope for any of us, regardless of our particular sins, lies in a ruthless trust in a God who inexplicably loves sinners, including those who sin differently than we do. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 99634be | Health and life, I would say, in the full and final sense of those words, are not what we die out of, but what we die into | Philip Yancey | ||
| 1a91786 | We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 204dd01 | C. S. Lewis shocked many people in his day when he came out in favor of allowing divorce, on the grounds that we Christians have no right to impose our morality on society at large. Although he would continue to oppose divorce on moral grounds, he maintained the distinction between morality and legality. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 78f4bc4 | Christians should not compromise in hating sin, says Lewis. Rather we should hate the sins in others in the same way we hate them in ourselves: being sorry the person has done such things and hoping that somehow, sometime, somewhere, that person will be cured. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 710522f | Some people find no comfort in the prophets' vision of a future world. "The church has used that line for centuries to justify slavery, oppression, and all manner of injustice," they say. The criticism sticks because the church has abused the prophets' vision. But you will never find that "pie in the sky" rationale in the prophets themselves. They have scathing words about the need to care for widows and orphans and aliens, and to clean up .. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 939196a | Some people worry that prayer may lead to passivity, that we will retreat to prayer as a substitute for action. Jesus saw no contradiction between the two: he spent long hours in prayer and then long hours meeting human needs. | Philip Yancey | ||
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| cd45fd9 | The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 72ae49a | the average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 43df013 | The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 9fb846a | we persevere because we believe rewards will come. | reward | Philip Yancey | |
| 1e480b3 | Grace dispensers give out of their own bounty, in gratitude (a word with the same root as grace) for what we have received from God. We serve others not with some hidden scheme of making converts, rather to contribute to the common good, to help humans flourish as God intended. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 22b319b | Prayer allows me to admit my failures, weaknesses, and limitations to One who responds to human vulnerability with infinite mercy. | Philip Yancey | ||
| a3fe208 | The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back. The Bible tells of flawed people -- people just like me -- who make shockingly bad choices and yet still find themselves pursued by God. As they receive grace and forgiveness, naturally they want to give it to others, and a thread of hope and transformation weaves its way throughout the Bible's accounts. | christian forgiveness inspirational | Philip Yancey | |
| 88abdef | I fear that our clumsy pronouncements, our name-calling, our hysteria about important issues--in short, our lack of grace--may in the end prove so damaging that society no longer looks to us for the guidance it needs. | Philip Yancey | ||
| fa397c9 | Often a work of God comes with two edges, great joy and great pain, and in that matter-of-fact response Mary embraced both. She was the first person to accept Jesus on His own terms, regardless of the personal cost. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 9c80abf | Ungrace does its work quietly and lethally, like a poisonous, undetectable gas. A father dies unforgiven. A mother who once carried a child in her own body does not speak to that child for half its life. The toxin steals on, from generation to generation. | Philip Yancey | ||
| f46b905 | I was quick to pounce on his moral flaws and slow to recognize my own blind sin. But because he stayed faithful, by offering his body as a target but never as a weapon, he broke through my moral calluses. The real goal, King used to say, was not to defeat the white man, but "to awaken a sense149 of shame within the oppressor and challenge his false sense of superiority.... The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the cre.. | Philip Yancey |