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One Quotes by Philip Yancey
- 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…
- God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that…
- When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not…
- The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
- One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need…
- There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.
- No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
- Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God…
- Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent…
- Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God…
- prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible…
- Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as…
- One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years…
- People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — 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
- 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle