Nature Quotes by Philip Yancey

14 Nature quotes by Philip Yancey

Yancey’s brief set invites contemplation on how the outdoors mirrors deeper spiritual currents. Though limited in number, these fourteen lines serve as a thoughtful starting point.

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When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes…

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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on…

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“Contrary to nature’s rule of “survival of the fittest,” we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and…

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For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves,…

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We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something…

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Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of…

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God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but…

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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it…

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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for…

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“The fact that Jesus came to earth where he suffered and died does not remove pain from our lives. But it does…

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When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume.…

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“C. S. Lewis introduced the phrase “pain, the megaphone of God.” “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience,…

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“Where is God when it hurts? We know one answer because God came to earth and showed us. You need only follow…

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“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…

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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs…

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Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group:…

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We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same…

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