Persons Quotes by Philip Yancey

14 Persons quotes by Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey often writes about the intersection of belief and everyday life, and these fourteen lines illustrate his gentle, probing style. They provide a modest yet insightful glimpse into how he perceives the complexities of human experience.

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Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.

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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure,

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Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.)…

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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes…

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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he…

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[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely…

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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding…

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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person…

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Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to…

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A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos…

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prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks…

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

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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

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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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