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| 04e58e2 | Turning off all the lights, I went into the bathroom and closed the door. I stood in the darkness before the mirror, my hand on the light switch. I forced myself to flick it on. In the flood of light against white tile, the face and shoulders of a strange--a fierce, bald, very dark Negro--glared at me from the glass. He in no way resembled me. The transformation was total and shocking. I had expected to see myself disguised, but this was .. | John Howard Griffin | ||
| 6822779 | Turning off all the lights, I went into the bathroom and closed the door. I stood in the darkness before the mirror, my hand on the light switch. I forced myself to flick it on. | John Howard Griffin | ||
| 1fe3270 | He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice. | biases conventional-wisdom | John Howard Griffin | |
| d9ac447 | In the context of today, this WAS heroism. | culture discipleship humility maturation | John Howard Griffin | |
| f59a60d | We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk , were suddenly elevated in status by this man's misery. We were the aristocrats and he the beggar. It flattered us. We were superbly above him and the comedy gave us a delusion of high self-respect. In a while, the magnanimity of the rich would complete the picture. We would feed our scraps to the poor. | poverty social-classes wealth | John Howard Griffin | |
| e1f2caa | Now you take dark Negroes like you, Mr. Griffin, and me," he went on. "We're old Uncle Toms to our people, no matter how much education and morals we've got. No, you have to be almost a mulatto, have your hair conked and all slicked out and look like a Valentino. Then the Negro will look up to you. You've got class. Isn't that a pitiful hero-type?" "And the white man knows that," Mr. Davis said. "Yes," the cafe owner continued. "He utiliz.. | elitism race-issues | John Howard Griffin | |
| 6cf40a8 | Those who have known pain profoundly are the ones most wary of uttering the cliches about suffering. Experience with the mystery takes one beyond the realm of ideas and produces finally a muteness or at least a reticence to express in words the solace that can only be expressed by an attitude of union with the sufferer. JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN | Philip Yancey | ||
| 12432f2 | ChristineMcVie has left us. What memories, what joy, and what a legacy... | Bette Midler | ||
| 5306aab | prayer incorporates the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of God's grace. | Philip Yancey | ||
| f6f12f1 | The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of power, which are rules of ungrace | Philip Yancey | ||
| 58c195d | The question {WHY}, though, never goes away-- not for me, not for anybody. We keep groping toward light while living in darkness. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 387c05d | Where did our sense of beauty and pleasure come from? That seems to me a huge question--the philosophical equivalent, for atheists, to the problem of pain for Christians. The Teacher's answer is clear: A good and loving God naturally would want his creatures to experience delight, joy, and personal fulfillment. G. K. Chesterton credits pleasure, or eternity in his heart, as the signpost that eventually directed him to God: | Philip Yancey | ||
| 785612a | Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive. | Philip Yancey | ||
| acaa361 | Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, "I don't need to sin. I need another sinner." | Philip Yancey | ||
| ef22e38 | I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers and the Stalins to have their way. But nothing - nothing - compares to the self-restraint shown that dark Friday in Jerusalem. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 4358ad4 | Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. "God is wild, you know," he wrote. "We're not in charge." | Philip Yancey | ||
| b61da26 | We need a renewed awareness of death, yes. But we need far more. We need a faith, in the midst of our groaning, that death is not the last word, but the next to last. What is mortal will be swallowed up by life. | Philip Yancey | ||
| a759a0f | Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 87946d6 | God had "hallowed" creation by separating the sacred from the profane, the clean from the unclean. Jesus did not cancel out the hallowing principle, rather he changed its source. We ourselves can be agents of God's holiness, for God now dwells within us. In the midst of an unclean world we can stride, as Jesus did, seeking ways to be a source of holiness." | Philip Yancey | ||
| fba4da2 | I know Christians who yearn for God's older style of a power-worker who topples pharaohs, flattens Jericho's walls, and scorches the priests of Baal. I do not. I believe the kingdom now advances through grace and freedom, God's goal all along. I accept Jesus' assurance that his departure from earth represents progress, by opening a door for the Counselor to enter. We know how counselors work: not by giving orders and imposing changes throug.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| bdf8a2e | grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations. | Philip Yancey | ||
| d6d344d | I leave in God's hands the scales that must balance justice and mercy. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 68721d3 | Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . and there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Philip Yancey1 | Lee Strobel | ||
| 8855c80 | Today, if I had to answer the question "Where is God when it hurts?" in a single sentence, I would make that sentence another question: "Where is the church when it hurts?" We form the front line of God's response to the suffering world." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 79d0df8 | In a sense, Job must replay the original test of the garden of Eden, with the bar raised higher. Living in paradise, Adam and Eve faced a best-case scenario for trusting God, who asked so little of them and showered down blessings. In a living hell, Job faces the worst-case scenario: God asks so much, while curses rain down on him. | Philip Yancey | ||
| ef9cb9f | But what if I create a universe that is free, free even of me? What if I veil My Divinity so that the creatures are free to pursue their individual lives without being overwhelmed by My overpowering Presence? Will the creatures love Me? Can I be loved by creatures whom I have not programmed to adore me forever? Can love arise out of freedom? My angels love me unceasingly, but they can see Me at all times. What if I create beings in My own i.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 4b8f086 | A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses." | Philip Yancey | ||
| e9b4198 | Alcoholics Anonymous discovered long ago that the path toward cure involves more than a quick-fix solution based on increased knowledge. In fact, it involves a change that seems more theological than educational. Somehow the "victim" of addictive behavior must regain an underlying sense of human dignity and choice, a profound reawakening that usually requires much time, attention, and love." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 555e65d | It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant | Philip Yancey | ||
| 7cc739c | Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, "She must be suffering because of some sin she committed"; Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 54ac1c7 | An institution cannot love; only people can love. As the proverb says, apart from love, giving becomes an insult. | Philip Yancey | ||
| c4a2d43 | never live as though God does not exist." Or, stated positively, "Always live in awareness of God's existence." | Philip Yancey | ||
| 08586b1 | A curious law of reversal seems to be at work in the Gospels: faith appears where least expected and falters where it should be thriving. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 41693db | Legalism may "work" in an institution such as a Bible college or the Marine Corps. In a world of ungrace, structured shame has considerable power. But there is a cost, an incalculable cost: ungrace does not work in a relationship with God. I have come to see legalism in its pursuit of false purity as an elaborate scheme of grace avoidance. You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it" | Philip Yancey | ||
| f441a7a | What would it look like if a Christian took literally Jesus' sweeping commands and acted on them. What would a Good Samaritan look like today, in urban America? | Philip Yancey | ||
| 9f846a6 | Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist. My own rules seem necessary; other people's rules seem excessively strict. | Philip Yancey | ||
| e0ea9d3 | Can God forgive you? Of course. Read your Bible. David, Peter, Paul--God builds his church on the backs of people who murder, commit adultery, deny him, and persecute his followers. But because of Christ, forgiveness is now our problem, not God's. What we have to go through to commit sin distances us from God--we change in the very act of rebellion--and there is no guarantee we will come back. You ask me about forgiveness now, but will you .. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 49cf539 | Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."7-19 He lists hope at the end, instead of where I would normally expect it, at the beginning, as the fuel that keeps a person going. No, hope emerges from the struggle, a byproduct of faithfulness." -- | Philip Yancey | ||
| 73bf86e | As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend." 7-20" | Philip Yancey | ||
| d3cabfb | Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.7-22 REINHOLD NIEBUHR | Philip Yancey | ||
| 71304a0 | Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world? | Philip Yancey | ||
| 2abcd95 | Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 5199e79 | Democracy requires us to recognize others' rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them. It requires a civility in which I respect a person's ultimate worth and seek to persuade but not to coerce. | Philip Yancey | ||
| e06f5c7 | We understand God best, Dorothy Sayers suggests, by thinking of God as a creative artist. Imagine God as an engineer or watchmaker or immovable force, and you will go astray. God's image shines through us most clearly in the act of creation-comprising the three stages of Idea, Expression, and Recognition-and by reproducing this act we may begin to grasp, by analogy, the Trinity. | Philip Yancey |