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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8b21369 | God shattered the inexorable law of sin and retribution by invading earth, absorbing the worst we had to offer, crucifixion, and then fashioning from that cruel deed the remedy for the human condition. Calvary broke up the logjam between justice and forgiveness. By accepting onto his innocent self all the severe demands of justice, Jesus broke forever the chain of ungrace. | Philip Yancey | ||
| cfccc82 | The church works best as a separate force, a conscience to society that keeps itself at arm's length from the state. The closer it gets, the less effectively it can challenge the surrounding culture and the more perilously it risks losing its central message. Jesus left his followers the command to make disciples from all nations. We have no charge to "Christianize" the United States or any other country -- an impossible goal in any case.".. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 4946a5f | I feel called to minister to telephone marketers. You know, the kind who call at inconvenient hours and deliver their spiel before you can say a word." Immediately I flashed back to the times I have responded rudely or simply hung up. "All day long these sales callers hear people curse at them and slam the phone down," she continued. "I listen attentively to their pitch, then I try to respond kindly, though I almost never buy what they're s.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| c0cbf54 | Everyone is entitled to my opinion. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 230dcc5 | Playing off a short story by H. G. Wells, Simone Weil drew an analogy to a land of blind people in which scientists could devise a complete system of physics leaving out the concept of light. Weightless, pressureless, undetectable by the senses -- why believe in light? To the blind, it need not exist. Occasionally, however, questions might arise among the blind. What makes plants grow upwards, defying the law of gravity? What ripens fruits.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 9a311b7 | The Israelites give ample proof that signs may only addict us to signs, not to God. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 055e659 | Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counter-culture of ordinary pilgrims who insist on living a different way. We can make the world stop and think before pulling a trigger, or exacting revenge, or neglecting the vulnerable, or practising euthanasia on those it deems 'devoid of value'. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 8ff8504 | The key is this: the main benefit of giving is in its effect on the giver. Yes, people in Africa and India need my financial help, as the fund-raising appeals urgently remind me. But in truth my need to give is every bit as desperate as their need to receive. | Philip Yancey | ||
| ebd4f49 | If God's kingdom had a "No Oddballs Allowed" sign posted, none of us could get in." | Philip Yancey | ||
| cb1f52c | Christ-followers need not live in fear, even when it seems that society may be turning against us. We rest in full confidence that God, in control of human history, will have the final word: "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever." We each of us do our part, loving others as God loves us, tending the world as stewards of a gracious landlord. The yeast spreads, the.. | Philip Yancey | ||
| b1bfb6e | In other words, the proof of spiritual maturity is not how 'pure' you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 87d0cf7 | Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist. | Philip Yancey | ||
| cad13ae | I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 0ddbaea | God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 30d22ad | Civilisation once looked to art as the means of passing wisdom from one generation to the next. Writing itself was invented in part to convey the sacred: permanent things deserved a permanent place, hence the hieroglyphs on Egyptian tombs. But a modern civilisation that no longer believes in permanent things, one that accepts no certain narrative of meaning, | Philip Yancey | ||
| d7a3391 | Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 858a6d2 | Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to. | Philip Yancey | ||
| 4efca04 | Civilisation once looked to art as the means of passing wisdom from one generation to the next. Writing itself was invented in part to convey the sacred: permanent things deserved a permanent place, hence the hieroglyphs on Egyptian tombs. But a modern civilisation that no longer believes in permanent things, one that accepts no certain narrative of meaning, resorts to deconstruction, not construction. | Philip Yancey | ||
| f94aebc | It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. | Betty Friedan | ||
| 043ef59 | My favorite definition of faith comes from Philip Yancey: "Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse." Many things in this life make no sense to us. It's only as we look back that we say, "I can see why it had to happen that way." So it is for all of us. God often sends us to "Egypt" to protect us and to prepare us for what is to come. Do not despair if you feel like you are in "Egypt" today. What seems like a pu.. | Ray Pritchard | ||
| 293b46a | Whoever occupies a territory imposes on it his own social system. | David L. Robbins | ||
| 7571bc2 | If a man sees an evil, let him change it with his hand. If he cannot, then with his tongue. If he cannot, then with his heart, but this is the weakest faith. | David L. Robbins | ||
| f3fbf40 | You have no fear?" "I don't let it make my decisions for me." | David L. Robbins | ||
| 7d260b7 | Muhammad tells us the services due from one Muslim to another are six. If you meet him, greet him. If he invites you, accept. If he asks your advice, give it. If he sneezes, tell him God bless you. If he falls sick, visit him. And if he dies, walk in his funeral. | David L. Robbins | ||
| ea4bdcb | They were reminded over and over that the Qur'an held 124 verses about dealing kindly with non-Muslims, while only one advocated waging war against them. | David L. Robbins | ||
| 79e6960 | It's not over when a man lays down his gun. The question remains as to which fellow will pick up the weapon next. That's politics. | David L. Robbins | ||
| 4e94a63 | In weeks or months, the rest of eastern Europe will become Soviet puppets as well. Tens of millions of people are to be subjugated to the communist will, against their own. | David L. Robbins | ||
| e9387a0 | as the taint of getting involved with anything CIA. You never got more than half the story from them, and half of that was a lie. | David L. Robbins | ||
| 84d4c27 | Then Arif was allowed to enter Care Rehabilitation, the Kingdom's response to 9/11, after fifteen of the nineteen hijackers turned out to be Saudis. | David L. Robbins | ||
| a34d731 | I don't need to know. So neither do you." LB snorted. "Funny how the people who say that are never the ones with parachutes on." | David L. Robbins | ||
| 761da1a | LB didn't have to inquire where Josh was. Among the curtains, white linens, IV lines, monitors, gray faces, and baby blue scrubs, Josh's private room would be the one between two Saudi army guards wearing berets and automatic weapons. | David L. Robbins | ||
| 3eb5bef | Why do you go like this? Are you a thief?" "I'm going to kill him." Shadows from the lamplight shifted on the old man's features as he tilted his head. "What did he do?" "He kidnapped my wife." "How do you know this?" "He threatened it. And it has been done." The man stepped nearer the pickup, raising the lantern to see Arif better. "Truly?" "Truly." "Is it tha'r?" A revenge killing. "Yes." The old one kept the lantern high while he studied.. | David L. Robbins | ||
| 3eaa7ae | This was Khalil's doing, and Josh's, and the three nations that could find no better way than stealing her. | David L. Robbins | ||
| c42291f | carried his weapon on his back, but in his hands. "I reckon we don't give much of a" | David L. Robbins | ||
| f255da6 | Then, as they will, the riches overtook knowledge, and the people lost the ways to keep their wealth flowing. | David L. Robbins | ||
| 6b42bf1 | This isn't combat. It's diplomacy." "Diplomacy with guns is combat." | David L. Robbins | ||
| 48cba8f | and live images were of a short, hawk-faced, and slender man, beardless, with a beak nose and distrustful eyes. This | David L. Robbins | ||
| 65700c4 | Long experience had taught him that fear lay in the next moment, not in this one. | David L. Robbins | ||
| dd4e0b1 | desert kept a still tongue, and when | David L. Robbins | ||
| 891b430 | felt this way, robbed | David L. Robbins | ||
| 8d24e66 | GAARV | David L. Robbins | ||
| a5d78a0 | God is about fear, a way to make you afraid and obey. The man of the forest is without fear. | David L. Robbins | ||
| 75a7561 | Joseph Campbell understood critical doctrines of Christianity as myth and maintained that understanding myth was a key to making sense of key doctrines of Christianity in any society, including a highly-technological one. C. S. Lewis understood myth as one means among many used by God to point people to His Son, Jesus Christ. | James W Menzies | ||
| 82c4cb2 | You don't just luck into integrity. You work at it. | Betty White |