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Most Quotes by Philip Yancey
- Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
- I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
- 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.…
- Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live…
- Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.
- 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.
- Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
- We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
- 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…
- Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster