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Inspirational Quotes by Philip Yancey
- We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
- You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
- If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
- Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.
- If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
- The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they…
- There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.
- We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
- People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
- Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
- The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
- When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack…
- I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.
- No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
- Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.
- True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
- Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
- Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
- We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
- The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
- I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
- I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
- Love deems this world worth rescuing.
- Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.
- Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento