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Life Quotes by Philip Yancey
- Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments…
- In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand…
- The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the…
- Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's…
- Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are.…
- Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
- The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You…
- The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
- We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
- We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical…
- Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in…
- If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian…
- A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
- Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in…
- When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle