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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 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 | ||
| c566c57 | Jesus honored the dignity of people, whether he agreed with them or not. He would not found his kingdom on the basis of race or class or other such divisions. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 5838c8c | From Jesus I learn that, whatever activism I get involved in, it must not drive out love and humility, or otherwise I betray the kingdom of heaven. | Philip Yancey | ||
| bdc2897 | A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide. | Philip Yancey | ||
| ce45b90 | There is only one way for any of us to resolve the tension between the high ideals of the gospel and the grim reality of ourselves: to accept that we will never measure up, but that we do not have to. We are judged by the righteousness of the Christ who lives within, not our own. | Philip Yancey | ||
| dd84f4b | It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism. | Philip Yancey | ||
| a812c67 | Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of | Philip Yancey | ||
| 35ad856 | Whatever you may believe about it, the birth of Jesus was so important that it split history into two parts. Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ or after Christ. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 31abf23 | Dependence, sorrow, repentance, a longing to change--these are the gates to God's kingdom. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 35151b4 | sinners. | Philip Yancey | ||
| a349e8a | All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 32b580b | Along with Chesterton, I've had to take my place among those who acknowledge that we are what is wrong with the world. What is my snobbishness toward my childhood church, for instance, but an inverted form of the harsh judgment it showed me? | Philip Yancey | ||
| a861cde | What is faith, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse | Philip Yancey | ||
| b0a6a0d | He learned, like every good novelist, that human behaviour can neither be explained nor predicted, only rendered. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 0bdd53f | Even in "post-Christian" societies the gospel will continue to do its subversive work. Jesus used small things to describe his kingdom: a sprinkling of yeast that causes the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt that preserves a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden that grows into a great bush in which the birds of the air come to nest. Practices that used to be common--human sacrifice, slavery, duels to the death, child labor, explo.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 319576a | Ironically, (the church's) respect in the world declines in proportion to how vigorously we attempt to force others to adopt our point of view. | evangelism-apologetics relevance secularism theocracy | Philip Yancey | |
| ac56646 | Changing the way a man thought could be done by teaching him. Altering the way he reacted without thought meant tampering with his instincts. | David L. Robbins | ||
| e357f9a | Heitor sipped his tea, a dainty counterpoint to the violent topic. | David L. Robbins | ||
| 4d59716 | Let me see a complete reorganization of the North Atlantic fleet's defensive strategy against Nazi U-boats. And if it won't go on one side of one sheet of paper, it hasn't been properly thought out--Winston Churchill. | Patrick Robinson | ||
| 3967c43 | But Henry was not prepared to submit. In a speech supporting his resolutions, he supposedly exclaimed, "Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third..." Before he could finish the phrase, red-robed Speaker of the House John Robinson cried, "Treason! Treason," as other burgesses took up the cry. But Henry stared the Speaker in the eye and finished his sentence: "...may profit by their example! .. | stamp-act | Willard Sterne Randall | |
| 277a1c7 | For our part, we thought we would be following her path from a distance in the press. Our friends called to tell us when the photo of Diana pushing Patrick in his stroller appeared in , or when our name was mentioned in a news magazine or paper. We were generally mislabeled as the Robinsons. Everyone asked if we would be going to the wedding, and we would reply, "Us? No, of course not." We truly never expected to hear from Diana again, so .. | Mary Robertson | ||
| 0d3bf7d | Patrick thought about the meals around Geraldine and Stephen's kitchen table. The roast chickens fragrant with tarragon and lemon, the rich casseroles, Stephen's tangy, oozing blue-cheese burgers. The mismatched crockery, the casual, relaxed conversation. Something Hannah had baked- raspberry roulade, apple strudel, sour-cream coffee cake- usually rounding off the meal. | exgirlfriend hannah-robinson meals | Roisin Meaney | |
| 6e9394e | missed that point for a long time. I had spent so much of my life concentrating on the "fruit" of my own personal holiness, that I missed out on the connection, the sweet intimacy of being attached to the Vine. And as a result, what I tried to do was as ludicrous as an apple tree branch trying to produce apples by its own effort. "Be good, be good. Do good, do good," the broken branch chants as it lies on the orchard grass. "That apple shou.. | Joanna Weaver | ||
| cf98477 | For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7, KJV)." -- | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 040eef4 | And Jesus' words to Martha are the words he wants to speak to your heart and mine: "You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed." The "one thing" is not found in doing more. It's found by sitting at his feet." | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 369ec41 | we do need to learn how to say no, but only so we are able to say yes to God when he wants to give us an assignment. | Joanna Weaver | ||
| f2cf7e0 | Someone has said that Jesus went from place of prayer to place of prayer and did miracles in between. | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 2fc20f0 | His gaze slid toward the back of the sanctuary and collided with Joanna, standing silently in the doorway. You...Crockett's voice tapered off. For a moment, all he could do was stare. Her rapt attention, the tiny smile that brought into relief the freckles dusting her cheekbones, the way the light passed through the doorway behind her to see her hair ablaze beneath the prim straw bonnet she wore. Yet it was her inner light that captured hi.. | inner-beauty-quote joanna-robbins religious-faith spirituality tapestry | Karen Witemeyer | |
| 1bf8ceb | You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. LUKE 10:41-42 | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 22bdf47 | Do | Joanna Weaver | ||
| 4438e75 | There was much more she would have liked to tell her brother. But within a few months, she would be able to tell him in person. When he learned of the attack on the airship, nothing would stop Archimedes and his wife from coming. But at least they would fly to the Red City instead of Krakentown, where he might be recognized as the smuggler Wolfram Gunther-Baptiste. One day, she might write a story inspired by that part of his career. She wo.. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 2c14211 | Perhaps drugging the woman he intended to fall in love with wasn't the accepted method of kindling a passionate romance, yet Archimedes considered it the most sensible way to proceed. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 0f43201 | My sister once warned me that a man who blushed so easily was probably a | Meljean Brook | ||
| 5d52ba8 | Families aren't always blood. You make your own. | Meljean Brook | ||
| 8992404 | That was unbelievably presumptuous," she said in astonished wonder. "I should be furious. But it was so well done. I have shivers all over." | Meljean Brook | ||
| bdc4dc7 | He couldn't prevent her from feeling any pain, but he could stand beside her through it. | iron meljean seas series tethered | Meljean Brook | |
| 14e9467 | every man had a choice: feed that which makes you happy, or feed that which makes you rage. | Meljean Brook | ||
| c9a924f | And while we are living, we receive no punishment but what we put on each other or that we make for ourselves | Meljean Brook |