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| fb4c20f | Paul says that Spirit lives inside us, detecting needs we cannot articulate and expressing them in a language we cannot comprehend. When we don't know what to pray, he fills in the blanks. Evidently, it is our very helplessness that God, too, delights in. Our weakness gives opportunity for his strength. | Philip Yancey | ||
| ee29a3a | God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.1 --Philip Yancey | Lisa Harper | ||
| 40950eb | God does not "keep" his people. He loves us, gives himself to us, and eagerly awaits our free response. God wants us to choose to love him freely, even when that choice involves pain, because we are committed to him, not to our own good feelings and rewards. He wants us to cleave to him, as Job did, even when we have every reason to deny him hotly. That, I believe, is the central message of Job. Satan had taunted God with the accusation tha.. | Philip Yancey | ||
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| 0b61616 | After reporting on such moments, the historian Paul Johnson concludes, "Attempts to perfect Christian societies in this world, whether conducted by popes or revolutionaries, have tended to degenerate into red terrors." | Philip Yancey | ||
| e65e07e | Prayer is an expression of who we are.... We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 2316757 | God dispenses gifts, not wages. None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 3c97918 | One man told me the most helpful person during his long illness was an office colleague who called every day, just to check. His visits, usually twice a week, never exceeded fifteen minutes, but the consistency of his calls and visits became a fixed point, something he could count on when everything else in his life seemed unstable. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 0f8f5ad | Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79 | Leonard Sweet | ||
| 3e657a4 | We respond to healing grace by giving it away. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 3639397 | Moreover, conservative Christians have come to accept that Jesus' gospel applies to the whole person and not just the soul. Didn't Jesus inaugurate his own ministry with a declaration of good news for the poor, the oppressed, the prisoners, and the blind? | Philip Yancey | ||
| 8f31491 | No matter how we rationalize, God will sometimes seem unfair from the perspective of a person trapped in time. . . . Not until history has run its course will we understand how 'all things work together for good.' Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse." -- PHILIP YANCEY" | Alicia Britt Chole | ||
| 1d33bfe | Like everyone else, evangelicals have a right to present arguments on all the issues, but the moment we present them as part of some "Christian" platform we abandon our moral high ground." | Philip Yancey | ||
| ec26c85 | Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and unpredictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives. | Philip Yancey | ||
| e6225bb | True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 57372e6 | The kingdom of suffering is a democracy, and we all stand in it or alongside it with nothing but our naked humanity. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 92118b3 | 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." When a poll of college students asked," | Philip Yancey | ||
| 9347af8 | How differently will I relate to the uncommitted if I view them not as evil or unsaved but rather as lost. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 015f59d | Jesus, who said little about how believers should behave when we gather together and much about how we can affect the world around us. | Philip Yancey | ||
| f81c737 | As a counterbalance to the list of seven deadly sins, the church in the Middle Ages came up with a list of seven works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, house the homeless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, bury the dead. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 32f8749 | Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 5866bb6 | You don't listen to me. * You judge me. * Your faith confuses me. * You talk about what's wrong instead of making it right. Reviewing these complaints, it occurs to me that Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments, or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love -- and thus deter a thir.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 2cd9ff4 | A counselor, David Seamands, summed up his career this way: Many years ago I was driven to the conclusion that the two major causes of most emotional problems among evangelical Christians are these: the failure to understand, receive, and live out God's unconditional grace and forgiveness; and the failure to give out that unconditional love, forgiveness, and grace to other people. . . . We read, we hear, we believe a good theology of .. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 6b0fcd7 | Contrary to popular belief, love is actually a reflection of how much we 'honor' another person--for at its core genuine love is a decision, not a feeling. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 060f769 | The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 1e8eef2 | The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 8f52f57 | I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength! | Philip Yancey | ||
| aacee8f | culture? As Lesslie Newbigin poses the question, "Can one who goes the way of the Cross sit in the seat of Pilate when it falls vacant?" | Philip Yancey | ||
| dd9d76d | Perhaps the reason politics has proved such a snare for the church is that power rarely coexists with love. People in power draw up lists of friends and enemies, then reward their friends and punish their enemies. Christians are commanded to love even their enemies. | Philip Yancey | ||
| b5bb6fb | I have written about the "toxic church" I grew up in: a legalistic, angry, racist church in the South. I joke about being "in recovery" from that church, learning along the way that much presented as absolute truth was in fact wrong. As a result, when I began writing I saw myself as someone on the edge, more comfortable asking questions than proposing answers. My early book titles (Where Is God When It Hurts, Disappointment with God) betray.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| d2de90c | I grew up with the strong impression that a person became spiritual by attending to these gray-area rules. For the life of me, I could not figure out much difference between the dispensations of Law and Grace. My visits to other churches have convinced me that this ladder-like approach to spirituality is nearly universal. Catholics, Mennonites, Churches of Christ, Lutherans, and Southern Baptists all have their own custom agenda of legalism.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 0223d23 | I get mailings from Amnesty International, and as I look at their photos of men and women who have been beaten and cattle-prodded and jabbed and spit on and electrocuted, I ask myself, "What kind of human being could do that to another human being?" Then, I read the book of Acts and meet the kind of person who could do such a thing, now an apostle of grace, a servant of Jesus Christ, the greatest missionary history has ever known. If God ca.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| fca6236 | Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love . . . In a concentration camp, the guards possess almost unlimited power. By applying force, they can make you renounce your God, curse your family, work without pay, eat human excrement, kill and then bury your closest friend or even your own mother. All this is within their power. Only one thing is not: they cannot force you to love them. This fact may help expla.. | John Eldredge | ||
| adf6676 | Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 3a444e4 | the New Testament holds up the model of a church whose activities exist primarily for the sake of outsiders. What keeps us from becoming the church God had in mind? | Philip Yancey | ||
| 2bfeed7 | Self-sufficiency which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet that their lack of self-sufficiency is obvious to them every day. They must turn somewhere for strength, and sometimes they go through life relying on their natural gifts. But there's a chance, just a chance, that people who lack such natural advantages may cry out to God in their time of need. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 105aae8 | The test of observance of Christ's teachings is our consciousness of our failure to attain an ideal perfection. The degree to which we draw near this perfection cannot be seen; all we can see is the extent of our deviation. LEO TOLSTOY The | Philip Yancey | ||
| 6b7c082 | when I turn from church history and examine myself, I find that I too am vulnerable to the Temptation. I lack the willpower to resist shortcut solutions to human needs. I lack the patience to allow God to work in a slow, "gentlemanly" way. I want to seize control myself, to compel others to help accomplish the causes I believe in. I am willing to trade away certain freedoms for the guarantee of safety and protection. I am willing to trade a.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 7b37c0b | Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more... And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less... Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love. | love | Philip Yancey | |
| ad6d4d1 | To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God. | Philip Yancey | ||
| b4bdd38 | The atheistic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was once asked what made him so negative toward Christians. He replied, "I would believe in their salvation if they looked a little more like people who have been saved." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 3d8fc0c | God is the ultimate judge of hypocrisy in the church, I decided; I would leave such judgment in God's capable hands. I began to relax and grow softer, more forgiving of others. After all, who has a perfect spouse, or perfect parents or children? We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections--why give up on the church? | Philip Yancey | ||
| 50d0789 | We should leave a worship service asking ourselves not "What did I get out of it?" but rather "Was God pleased with what happened?" | Philip Yancey | ||
| f6c3d41 | Taken as a whole, the Bible clearly puts the emphasis on what pleases God--the point of worship, after all. To worship, says Walter Wink, is to remember Who owns the house. | Philip Yancey |